Confucius Quotes
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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Women just love to shop.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.
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I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.
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Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
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'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with.
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I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.
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While the religious divisions in our world are self-evident, many people still imagine that religious conflict is always caused by a lack of education, by poverty, or by politics.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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Is there any other job that beats being an astronaut? Who didn't want to be an astronaut? That is my question.
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I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
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Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source of life! Some people are squandering the world's most precious resource while others have too little clean water to drink.
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Don't worry that other people don't know you; worry that you don't know other people.
