Confucius Quotes

A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.

Quotes to Explore
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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The world is too violent right now.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.
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Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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I'm not really into weight training.
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With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
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On YouTube you can tell what countries are watching and I've definitely noted a strong Australian following. You can plan your tours around where the love is on Twitter and YouTube - before, you couldn't tell.
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In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.
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In the U.A.E. we were the least-regulated environment in the region, and over time we are seeing more and more regulation coming in. On the other hand, a central bank can overregulate and choke the economy, and then we will have a dead banking industry.
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Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a link in the chain of beauty, as a useful ornament for the stage, and this, in turn, as an important element in the spiritual development of nations.
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I grew up with KTSU, and that station gave me so much info about the pantheon of black sounds: reggae, gospel, blues, soul, hip hop, and mostly they played jazz. That was a major part of how I understood music.
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A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.