Confucius Quotes
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The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
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I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.
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I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
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Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.
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The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.
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Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.
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I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.
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If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.
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I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.
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The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
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It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women.
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A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.
