Confucius Quotes
With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
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I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.
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When it comes to the president, we have to respect him, we have to protect him, and we have to correct him. And in my career, since he'd been on the national stage at least, I've had - I've always respected the president.
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As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
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I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.
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Abdias do Nascimento was the first writer who gave me racial consciousness. It was through his books and writings that I first took in the real weight of race in our society. He was the main influence on me because in my family, race was never an issue.
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I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.
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I still have the Triumph Palm Beach I was given for Christmas when I was 11. By today's standards, it is heavy and slow, but was my pride and joy at the time.
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Gem of all joy, jasper of jocundity.
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With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.
