Lao Tzu Quotes
Loss is not as bad as wanting more.
Lao Tzu
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I've been pretty lucky with neighbors. But back in 1998, I lived, like, literally next door to Wrigley Field in Chicago. And I had, like, 50,000 bad neighbors spread out over the course of one summer. I'm a diehard Cubs fan, but living right next to the ballpark, it's just - as you're trying to go to sleep, you can just, like, hear urination.
Ike Barinholtz
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Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
Carla Bley
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Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
Vince Gill
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But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.
Oscar Robertson
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
Sallust
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I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.
Garret Dillahunt
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Most of the time, I don't really give people a chance. I have a wall up. I'm always protecting who I am. Thinking about my brand. I make it hard on people. Sometimes, it's a good thing. Sometimes, it's a bad thing.
Cam Newton
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If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you're in a good place and you're in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse.
Salma Hayek
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I have this friend who has a theory that lots of towns have energies. And, for instance, certain places in Alabama have bad ones because they were built on reservations or built on cemeteries or something. But Nashville has a really gravitational, magnetic pull.
Caitlin Rose
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Two gold medals and two silver, I don't think is that bad... I think I still did a pretty good job.
Nadia Comaneci
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Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
Wendell Wilkie
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The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And then eventually it ends up at auction. And then critics say, 'Oh, that's a bad drawing!' Well, I didn't say it was so wonderful.
Marlene Dumas
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If indeed this is the work of God... then it's a crisis that calls for the church to be its very best self, and not worry about risking itself for the right thing.
Gene Robinson
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We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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On one level, we're on Matador, but our amps still might explode on stage, or they'll be an echo in the mic. It's like climbing a ladder. I like to climb it really slowly. I could probably get really professional right away, but I like to take baby steps and find my own way.
Kurt Vile
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Loss is not as bad as wanting more.
Lao Tzu
