Confucius Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing – to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.
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My life was made easy - I lived in a village, and by writing for some newspapers and magazines, had enough to live on. I was happy to be there and write.
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There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.
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I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me.
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.
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There's a pervading sense of loneliness I've had since the day I was born. Maybe a lot of other people feel the same way, but I'm not about to run up and down the street asking everybody if they're as lonely as I am. I'd probably get locked up.
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The funniest people are the saddest once.
