Lao Tzu Quotes
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Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.
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Love is the funeral of hearts.
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My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remember going to the funeral parlour in France and being given a laminated menu of coffins, and thinking, surely there is an ice cream at the back of here!
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Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will place my napkin over the remaining portion. This is what I frequently refer to as a 'food funeral.'
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I grew up in a funeral home. Both my parents were morticians.
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I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business.
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The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's funeral because they all know I'm sick. I am getting buildings named after me and awards and stuff.
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Dad's funeral was standing room only; most in attendance were strangers to me. At the back, a lone Marine stood silently, then left. People told me he'd saved their life or helped them in their darkest hour.
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My books have occasionally been of mixed success. It's not like I have gone from triumph to triumph. I have had a couple of books do very, very well and a couple do very, very badly.
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One of the things that was most shocking to me about starting to work in the funeral industry is just how industrial the environment is.
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Gothic script seemed to warp every letter that passed through the door of the funeral parlour, as if death were a German village.
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'And if I die before I wake, I pray the lord my soul to take but please don't cry, just know that I have made these songs for you, and if I die before I wake I pray the lord my soul to take cause I'm ready for a funeral'
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You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.
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I almost moved into a place over a funeral parlor. My father said, 'That's just too macabre,' but I thought I'd be embracing my mortality. I told him it would keep me grounded - like when people get skull tattoos.
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But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
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I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say one last goodbye. That's how much the bank meant to my father.
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There have been times when I've felt inappropriately emotional. I remember making 'The Most Hated Family in America' about the Westboro Baptist Church, and being on the way to a funeral of a U.S. soldier with the Phelps family; they were going to picket the funeral.
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I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.'
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Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
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The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there.
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Before going home with a guy, give him a blow job. Guys are always more relaxed after a blow job.
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Conduct your triumph as a funeral.
