Confucius Quotes
Tell people - and they may forget... show them - they may remember... but involve them and they will understand.
Quotes to Explore
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I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.
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The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
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There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
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In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasoline demand is projected to grow nearly two percent, averaging 9.3 million barrels per day for the summer.
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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I have no regrets. I've got my health.
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I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
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There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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The track is fast and I appreciate anything is possible.
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I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do but either walk around or read a book or work on your book, and they all seem helpful.
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I'd been a psychiatric social worker for 17 years, but within 24 hours after I started the case against studying reading Bible in school by my son, I was fired from my job as a supervisor in the city public welfare department. And I was unable to find another one. So my income was completely cut off.
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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I like to think of myself as the people's pop star a little bit. I respect Lady Gaga so much, and I love what she does, but she has this kind of mysterious, out-of-reach thing. I'm just not that - as much as I'd love to have that sort of mystique, I think I'm kind of an open book.
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I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
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Tell people - and they may forget... show them - they may remember... but involve them and they will understand.
