Confucius Quotes
A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled.
Quotes to Explore
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I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
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We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren't there.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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If you live close to an International Rescue Committee office in the United States, find out how you can assist a refugee family as they transition to American life. Invite a newly arrived family to your home for a welcoming meal. Listen to their hopes and dreams, and share your own.
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I'm a person who has always been clear about my love of music and vocal about trying to live in a way that lends itself to health.
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As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.
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Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.
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Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.
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We’re building what’s called a private cloud for them the C.I.A., … because they don’t want to be on the public cloud.
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As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it.
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I never want people to be repulsed with my pictures; I always want to attract people.
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Rob Engle and I are concerned with extracting useful implications from economic data, and so the properties of the data are of particular importance.
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I'm strong enough and have a pretty thick skin, but when people go after my kids, I just hit block-delete, block-delete. It's my mantra.
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Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.
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I live in a bubble.
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I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.
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I would love to do a Black Widow movie. That's perfect, I would love to do that. That character is really interesting: she doesn't have any superpowers; she just has extraordinary skills, and the world that she comes from, being this ex-K.G.B. assassin, I find that really fascinating, yeah.
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Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.
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The wilderness is a place of rest - not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to move, to round the next bend. The rest comes in the isolation from distractions, in the slowing of the daily centrifugal forces that keep us off balance.
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I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.
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Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.
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The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.
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Stealing money from your parents - I feel like I did that a lot and I now know as an adult that your parents knew how much money they had. Nobody was being fooled.
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A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled.
