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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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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You do something you're really quite proud of, and the public doesn't like it. Then you do something that perhaps you're not at all happy with and the public loves it. And that's the moment of truth, because it's the audience that's the final judge.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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We are not to lead events, but to follow them.
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To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.
