Confucius Quotes
At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand.
Confucius
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
Danica McKellar
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People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
Irving Kristol
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
Foster Friess
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I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
Samantha Fox
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I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.
Pat Paulsen
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I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
Mandy Patinkin
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At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.
Mark Haddon
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It's high school, man. They compare it to prison in the movie.
Eliza Dushku
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I’ve been starvin’ for another taste. Like a dog, you got me on a leash. I’ve been barkin’ at your feet. One more bite is all I need.
Jesse Rutherford
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Their preservation depends upon a sentiment. As sentiment never yet annihilated a paying industry, we cannot hope to stay, wholly, the ax and saw of the lumberman. But popular opinion, combined with action, if directed intelligently towards the setting apart of some one section of the noble redwood forests... will, I believe, save for our present delight and for that of the generations who come after us, at least one grand forest of the Sequoia sempervirens such as the world cannot show elsewhere, such as a thousand years cannot reproduce.
Frank Howard Clark
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It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.
Henry Louis Gates
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At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand.
Confucius