Confucius Quotes
Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.
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The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.
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Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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I'm extremely superstitious.
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We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.
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India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
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I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.
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I love simplicity.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
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I have no mouth, and I must scream.
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I'm a visual thinker, thrill seeker, and I'm easily distracted. I see everything I'm writing, and I think it naturally affects the pace of things.
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Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.
