Confucius Quotes
Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.
Quotes to Explore
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.
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The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
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I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
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It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.
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We work for the public, and I believe that if a senator wants to block a piece of legislation or a nominee, they owe the public an explanation.
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I have healthy disagreements with political parties I'm not aligned with, but I don't think it should be to the point where we're cursing and trying to strangle each other.
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Going to Peru is, well, if you ever have an opportunity in your life to go there, you should do it because it is absolutely mind boggling.
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Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.
