Confucius Quotes

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

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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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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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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 greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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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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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.
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I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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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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The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.
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For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.
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I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.
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I market for the same reason a pilot keeps his engines running once he is off the ground.
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The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.