Confucius Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.
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It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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I really want to bring ensemble playing back to the forefront - not just for me, but for everyone in jazz. When you have a group, a true co-op group, you can really heighten the possibilities of all the treasures of jazz.
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Never give up, trust your instincts!
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don't think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.
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My art teacher told me I'd be suited to graphic design, but I just couldn't, because it was what my dad had done.
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To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.
