Lao Tzu Quotes
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be. The more subsidies you have, the less self reliant people will be.
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
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A lot of people have the misconception that, as a Muslim woman, I am somehow against women wearing bikinis. No, I want women to feel comfortable and confident in whatever they wear.
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The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.
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Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers.
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Just for you to know, people, models, are very smart. We're investing money in the right way, and, you know, a modeling job I'm taking as a businesswoman. So it's not fun for me; it's work.
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Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
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I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.
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Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.
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I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.
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It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low.
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I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.
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Lots of people still don't think of golf as a sport.
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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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Do things for people not because for who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.
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If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to fight against it.
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I'm like, 'Why aren't artists owning their masters? Why are labels robbing artists dry, and they have to spend all this time on tour to even break even?' Like, what happened? Why are they promoting things that aren't either socially conscious or elevating the human consciousness?
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There are times and places for tune-ups and stay-busy fights.
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I was always a data guy, not a theorist. Theorists can maintain total purity. The data are always messy.
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The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be. The more subsidies you have, the less self reliant people will be.
