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.
Confucius
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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.
A. R. Rahman
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
Damon Albarn
Blur
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
Karl Rove
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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.
Adam Lambert
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The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
E. W. Howe
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
Lakhdar Brahimi
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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.
Maisie Williams
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
Eartha Kitt
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It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
Sam Smith
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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.
Larry David
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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.
Tavis Smiley
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As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
Naomie Harris
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I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and they leave at a particular time. The whole glorious history of animals with people is about joy and connection. It's about loving this creature and letting this creature love you.
Jon Katz
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While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox], blended with the fond hope of enjoying independence and domestic peace and happiness, was often so excessive that, in pursuing my favourite subject among the meadows, I have sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie.
Edward Jenner
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Together we knew toil, joy and pain. My fervent wish is that the nine of us who were united in face of death should remain fraternally united through life.
Maurice Herzog
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Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
Albert Einstein
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London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.
William Dunbar
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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.
Confucius
