Lao Tzu Quotes
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
Quotes to Explore
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The name 'Charmageddon' actually comes from a social technique that I use. Which is, you know, literally obliterating people with charm so that you can get away with saying stuff that no one else could ever get away with, you know?
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My first agent told me to change my name or I'd only play Jewish parts or Indians. Of course I refused to change it. Shortly thereafter she came up to me and told me I had to keep it, because her numerologist said it was very, very good.
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Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke.
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I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
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Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.
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I'm going to name a name: Janet Evanovich. She writes the same book over and over, and I read every single one of them and eagerly anticipate them.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.
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I'm a rational person, and I'm not a method actor. You don't need to call me by my character's name while I'm not shooting.
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Helping doing business easier, we choose the name Alibaba because it is a global company. It is founded in China, but it was created for the world.
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I tend to name albums after one of the songs.
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Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C.
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I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.
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Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.
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At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.
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I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.
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In Malaysia, we have a lot of divas, like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey singers. And they were all so so talented, just very talented. For example, there's this one jazz singer, her name is Sheila Majid, and I was always singing her songs.
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My name can raise money on a small-budget film.
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It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.
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I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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As an assistant operations officer for a helicopter task force in Iraq, I saw my fellow Guardsmen and soldiers risk life and limb to maintain diesel fuel supply lines.
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I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, 'She's on our side.' These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn't have to deal with.
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To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
