Confucius Quotes
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
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I love to make a one-pot meal - think stir-fry but in the French Fricassee. I start with what takes the longest to roast and then add vegetables, fresh herbs, and starch until the meal is complete in one shot.
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Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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I do feel that I need to do at least one more Western - I think you need to make three Westerns to call yourself a Western director.
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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man's honesty thanthat of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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God not only loves me as I am, but also knows me as I am. Because of this I don't need to apply spiritual cosmetics to make myself presentable to Him. I can accept ownership of my poverty and powerlessness and neediness.
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A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.
