Lao Tzu Quotes
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I have confidence in mining. I see exciting opportunities in it.
Patrice Motsepe -
As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
Oscar Hijuelos -
I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
J. G. Ballard -
I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
Carlos Mesa -
I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.
Zainab Salbi -
I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'
Samantha Fox
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Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.
Edmund Phelps -
Eventually I just want to live a normal life. I want to get married and have children and cook, wash... all the things that I do now. My background is very normal and steady, and that's what I like.
Vicky McClure -
What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did.
Bobby Hull -
Guys usually like a very natural look. I think it's bad idea to wear a strong lip on a first date - or for the first few dates. I'm always too nervous he'll kiss it off - if I'm lucky enough to get a kiss! I also think soft, sexy hair is important.
Emmy Rossum -
Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive.
Lou Brock -
One of the things I find extremely challenging about the continent of Africa is that when the immediate needs and the social needs of people are not met, that kills dreams, and it's all about survival.
Djimon Hounsou
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I grew up with my little brother, and we were raised by my grandmother. I was an insider for real. I stayed in the house a lot, writing songs or playing video games, watching TV, or chilling with my girlfriend.
Bryson Tiller -
For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands.
Marcel Carne -
I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.
Boz Scaggs The Steve Miller Band -
When I was paralysed by polio at 13, I went into an isolation hospital and couldn't sit up, so I only took liquid food from spouted cups which the masked nurses would bring in and feed to me. I saw my parents only through glass; we couldn't touch.
Mary Berry -
Paternalism is the method of government activism most amenable to an impoverished public sector.
Jacob Weisberg -
If I came across a role that is completely mainstream and commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.
Kylie Minogue
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[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.
Abraham Lincoln -
What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Movies are different from real life.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt -
I'm not in a situation where you get a thousand scripts. You want to make a living, you want to put your kids through school. I'd rather do three bad films that pay well than do one good film every three years that doesn't pay well. ... To me, if you can get a steady check in this business, you're doing okay.
Eugene Levy -
I start at square one with every role. If I let myself feel pressure, it would crush me. The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie. Sometimes that's a palpable thing, but other times it's not. No actor has control of that. All you can control is your own passion for doing the work in the first place.
Tom Hanks -
The perfect square lacks corners.
Lao Tzu