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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If you kiss on the first date and it's not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it's better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else.
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The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.
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When you find somebody who doesn't give and take, you go, 'Remind me never to work with you again.'
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My mum was one of those people who really wasn't allowed to be an artist, because she worked in a factory and she came from the war and all that stuff. She really has an artist's soul.
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Not saying that we are realer than most people, but because Chi is so segregated, first of all, we have to be diverse comedians and be able to make a lot of different people laugh. And Chicago comics, we're OK with who we are in our truth. That stems from Bernie Mac and a lot of other greats who came before me.
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Tell people - and they may forget... show them - they may remember... but involve them and they will understand.
