Confucius Quotes
What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.
Quotes to Explore
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.
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I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.
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Some guys just slip under the radar.
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I normally don't listen to my instincts because I'm so full of doubt.
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A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
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I love cakes. Chocolate and coconut cakes. I love that combination!
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
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If Home Depot doesn't have it, Mark Bradford doesn't need it.
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Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.
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What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.
