Confucius Quotes

If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

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• You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

  

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• My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.

  

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• Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.

  

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• It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.

  

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• This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

  

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• I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.

  

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• Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

  

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• I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.

  

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  • Believe
  • Children
  • American

• I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

  

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  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Childhood

• My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.

  

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• I've been in government and politics my entire career, and while I try to keep a level head and a reasonable tone in my commentary, even I can lose my head sometimes and let anger bubble over and burst out. It feels gross, looks ugly, and leaves a lasting mark.

  

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• Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

  

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• To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.

  

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• For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without my family. Being the people that they are - they're crazy - made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design.

  

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  • People
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• For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.

  

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• I don't take myself too seriously, but I take the job very seriously, and I expect people to do the job that they're given because this is about all our people, young and old, and it's an enormous responsibility.

  

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  • Job
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• Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music.

  

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• Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

  

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  • Desire

• If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

  

  Confucius
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