Confucius Quotes
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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I was born free.
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Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.
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I recently read an article on how I was dropped from a film because I couldn't dance! It was so ridiculous that I decided to shut up about it. Let people say what they want to. It's such a waste of time.
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I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.
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Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.
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So many more people recognise you and want to take up a moment of your time for a photo or a hello. You try to deal with it with grace and a degree of humour, because what's the alternative?
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All people are the same; only their habits differ.
