Confucius Quotes
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.
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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
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I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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All That You Can't Leave Behind and How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb are both really mad long titles. As I've just said them, I've just realised how ridiculous the titles are.
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I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen.
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The combination of experience and experimentation will ultimately yield a personal sound.
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The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.
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To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.
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How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?
