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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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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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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You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.
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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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Look at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like 'Kaddish' and 'Howl,' you can hear a cantor between the lines. It's fully alive, and I think that's what's missing in modern poetry. It's too dry and cerebral.
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You need to have time to really hear God.
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It's a hard thing for me to wrap my mind around the C word: celebrity. Rock stars are celebrities because they're larger than life. As an actor, you have to play the everyman and the everygirl. If you start treating people in the real world like assistants, that's not a good look. But my friends keep me grounded.
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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.
