Confucius Quotes

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

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• Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Very
  • Unfortunately

• I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Knows
  • Talking

• None of the actor methods ever discussed what it would be like to play a character on film for over a decade, and what it must be like to return to a character and imagine the time off-screen, which is interesting. There's something as an actor that I enjoy about evolving characters.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Time
  • Character
  • Interesting

• I think that life is just too sweet to be bitter.

  

  Kris Carr
  • Life
  • Sweet
  • Bitter

• Once a maggot, always a maggot.

  

  Christy Romano
  • Maggots

• All of our guys thought he was on the ground. That's what everybody told me. I didn't see it, but that's what instant replay is for.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Players
  • Replay

• My father sang well, and he was a handsome man. When he walked down the street, people sometimes mistook him for Cary Grant and asked for his autograph.

  

  Alan Alda
  • People
  • Father
  • Street

• When you become a band and you've got people who want to be a part of your experience or want to get close to you for what you are, not who you are, you have that challenge of trying to find out who's genuine.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Experience

• When I was in Washington, I would usually get home from the Capitol at about 7:30 or 8, and I would try to write as much as possible. It was almost all in the wee hours.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Home

• I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

  

  Anthony Hope
  • May
  • Admire
  • Willing

• It's rare to have a best friend who is also your brother and also an NFL football player, and he knows exactly what I'm talking about.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Friend
  • Football
  • Player

• Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Fashion
  • Care
  • Mischief

• And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Values
  • Creator
  • Annihilator

• Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth
  • Gateway
  • Antithesis

• Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Imagination

• I love to go bungee jumping, jump out of planes, ride motorbikes, do kickboxing. I love all that stuff.

  

  Catherine Bell
  • Love
  • Ride
  • Planes

• All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide.

  

  Brian Koppelman
  • Movies
  • Screenplays
  • Screenwriting books

• I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Children
  • Night
  • Affairs

• Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

  

  Confucius
  • Affairs
  • Advantages
  • Prevents