Confucius Quotes
When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
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The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
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There's no business like show business.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.
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Like so many Boomers, I saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' in 1962 when it was first released and when we were young teenagers. I'm not quite sure why - I really wish some psychologist would explain this - but that movie had a tremendous effect on many of us.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.
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It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.
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When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.
