Confucius Quotes
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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Most kids at 10 or 11 love science, but I never outgrew it.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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You have to decide who you are going to serve - stockholders or your customers.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.
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The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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Ziri's soul felt like the high roaming wind of the Adelphas Mountains and the beat of stormhunters' wings, like the beautiful, mournful, eternal song of the wind flutes that had filled their caves with music he could not possibly remember. It felt like home.
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I do think that what's wonderful in life is that we gain perspective as we take on different roles that are mind and heart opening.
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The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it.
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There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and small continue to be trodden by the mighty and powerful.
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Sometimes I wonder what will be the air conditioning of my dying days. What thing will they add that will make it impossible to be uncomfortable? Because I do assume that as an old person, I will be very comfortable. There will be something - a drug or some way to impact the air around me - that when I relax, I'm gonna feel great. So I do look forward to that.
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Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.
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Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.
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We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.
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I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.
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I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.
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Yeah, I feel sort of unfinished in New York, even though I spent so many years there. I think it's because I never got a chance to do any Broadway, or even off-Broadway. I would love to do that and I haven't given up on that.
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One dedicated worker is worth a thousand slaves.
