Confucius Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The world is always in movement.
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don't want to - I just want to be at home with my family.
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Too clever is dumb.
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Just to paint a representation or design is not hard, but to express a thought in painting is. Thought is fluid. What you put on canvas is concrete, and it tends to direct the thought. The more you punt on canvas the more you lose control of the thought. I’ve never been able to paint what I set out to paint.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.
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Failures can be God's little whispers (or) a full earthquake in our lives because we didn't listen to the whispers
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Respect the gods, but have as little to do with them as possible.
