Confucius Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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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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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
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It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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Be who you are and be that well.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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Usually, if you've got a great script, everything falls into place.
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You have to have fine motor control to make putts when you need them the most. That's why golf is such a challenge - you go from extreme power to slowing down and making putts when you need them.
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My mother died when I was very young. I didn't want to be in the position I was in, but I eventually pulled my head out of the sand, started listening to people, and decided to use my role for good. I am now fired up and energized and love charity stuff, meeting people, and making them laugh.
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It's difficult to see how Syria can have any long-term future with Assad there as president. Many people would never return to that country if that were the case.
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In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.
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Wisdom is rooted in watching with affection the way people grow.
