Confucius Quotes
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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 victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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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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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
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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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Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
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I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.
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What I did in New York was bring people together, an overwhelmingly Democratic state. But I was able to get Democrats to support the most conservative sweeping policy changes in any state in America.
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leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.
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They're naughty, all those writers - they mess around with people. I know James Gandolfini got a bit fed up on 'The Sopranos': if he said anything in front of a writer, told them a story from his life, it could make its way into the script.
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To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.
