Eastern Quotes

• What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

  Confucius

  Character, Men, Chinese

  Confucius, William Jennings, Epiphanius Wilson (1983). “The wisdom of Confucius”, Random House Value Pub

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• I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.

  Adam Lambert

  Sound, Fans, Elements

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• I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi.

  Hugh Laurie

  Men, Hands, White

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I remember when the wave of Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek and these beautiful Hispanic women came into light, and I looked up to them and I loved them, but I was like, 'Where are Middle Eastern women?'

  Kim Kardashian

  Beautiful, Light, Remember

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• Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.

  Jim DeMint

  Country, Children, Government

  "Interview: Sen. Jim DeMint on Tea Party, U.S. Debt, and God's Calling". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. July 4, 2011.

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• Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

  Confucius

  Educational, Past, Study

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• I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

  Leslie Caron

  Country, Ballet, Middle

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• I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Morning, Theatre, Attention

  1779 Mr Puff, of his tragedy 'The Spanish Armada'.The Critic, act 2, sc.2.

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• A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.

  Patti LuPone

  Rocks, Kind, Middle

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• The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.

  Arthur Scargill

  Leadership, Party, Europe

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• Democrats have laid out a program that, if adopted, would make us independent of Middle Eastern oil in ten years, and create a new economy especially for those in rural America. Our program invests in clean energy alternatives and provides energy assistance for those in need.

  Jim Clyburn

  Independent, Years, Oil

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• The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.

  Cat Stevens

  Names, People, Hatred

  "Faith and the future" by Yusuf Islam, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2001.

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• As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Men, Rights, Granted

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• Gandhi became my role model. I have always been interested in Eastern philosophy. Since early in my life I've been fascinated by India, and I have spent a great deal of time traveling in that country.

  Bianca Jagger

  Country, Philosophy, Role Models

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• I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it.

  Montel Williams

  Black And White, Thinking, Europe

  "Montel Williams...still the talk of the town". AskMen Interview,

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• Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.

  Loretta Lynn

  Growing Up, Gun, Kentucky

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• When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

  Sarah Zettel

  Inspirational, Dance, Reading

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• And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world.

  Jerry Falwell

  Islamic, Monsters, World

  "Transcript of Pat Robertson's Interview with Jerry Falwell". "The 700 Club" with Pat Robertson, archive.commondreams.org. September 13, 2001.

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• Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Israel, Mosaics, Elements

  "Democracy in the Middle East, PluralIism in Europe: Turkish View". The Turkish Weekly, October 12, 2004.

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• I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.

  Garry Shandling

  Basketball, Spiritual, Philosophy

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• I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.

  Tony Campolo

  Commitment, Cities, Special

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• I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, North Carolina, Stories

  The Book Reporter Interview, www.bookreporter.com. September 28, 2001.

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• I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

  Frederick Douglass

  Patriotic, Men, Looks

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• No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.

  Silvan Shalom

  Children, Parent, Berlin

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