Confucius Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
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Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.
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I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.
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Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.
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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.
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The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.
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All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.
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James Garner was a gift to our business and an example of honesty and pure class. It was an honor to have worked beside him and receive his bear hugs every day.
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In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion.
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You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
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I was afraid to express myself for a while.
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White America is in the minority.
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People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid for the purpose of giving a merchant marine to the whole country so that the trade of the whole country will be benefitted thereby, and the men running the ships will of course make a reasonable profit.... Unless we have a merchant marine, our navy if called upon for offensive or defensive work is going to be most defective.
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You may laugh of the idea of the good will of others in Hollywood, but it's no laughing matter if you don't have it.
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I can't tell you, as a parent, how it feels when the doctor tells you your child has diabetes. First off, you don't really know much about it. Then you discover there is no cure.
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3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it's in 3D, it bothers you.
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The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat.
