Confucius Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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I can paint in jail.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
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My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.
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I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
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In Arab culture, music is for celebration. You don't play music at funerals.
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I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.
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She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.
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I want to keep going till I drop.
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If you don't want to do something,don't impose on others.
