Confucius Quotes
When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.
Quotes to Explore
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
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There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.
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Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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Hairdressers call me dark blonde, but I think they're wrong. I feel far more naturally confident blonde. My mum's blonde, my sister's platinum blonde. I thought, 'When I grow up, that's what I'm going to look like.'
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I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
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Shake accepted a yellowed slip of paper and unfolded it. It was a page torn from a copy of Julius Caesar. Minh had underlined a passage and written a rough Vietnamese translation in the margin. “`Cry `Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war.' Yes. It’s what I was thinking. It’s what happened on the Long Mountain March, isn’t it?” “Yes...” “It wasn’t the first time. It won’t be the last. Do you remember My Lai, Minh?” “I remember what we heard. Quang Ngai Province. Civilians were executed by American soldiers.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.
