Confucius Quotes
In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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Economically, ISIS is making money every day on the black market with their oil fields. But they are also putting money in banks. We know where those banks are. We should go after the banks and the facilitators using them.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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Trying to be smarter, work smarter, and just take care of my body more and more.
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I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.
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I don't see myself as famous; I see myself as a normal person with a job that is not very normal. My work life is very out there and very public. But I do my best to maintain my privacy.
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I buy food and gasoline - that's it.
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If people think that Colorado is a beacon for artists and creative people who are really talented, I think they're going to be a little happier during the day, and I think they're going to be a little more successful at their job, no matter what their job is.
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I’m not a true vegan. I dabble in sustainable fish and dawdle in the consumption of eggs. Steak doesn’t speak to me, and tempeh is so-so. I’ll savor a solitary apricot that’s been kissed by my baby.
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Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point.
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Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form of the parable, wonderful short stories that entertained and clothed the moral precept in an eternal form. It is not sufficient to catch man's mind, you must also catch the imaginative faculties of his mind.
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Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.
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In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.
