Confucius Quotes
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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've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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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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In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
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I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.
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My goal has always been to make classic records, classic albums. Sometimes the recording process and the era it was recorded in means the production leans in a particular way, but to me they are all part of the same process.
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How can an opera express this complicated question of bedsheets?
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The thing I'm not good with is mediocrity, when someone isn't really trying to reach something.
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If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.
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Respect the gods, but have as little to do with them as possible.
