Lao Tzu Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.
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Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.
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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
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What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?
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I have been into Odissi for over a decade now. I started around the time I was in standard X. I started dancing with Meenakshi Seshadri. My guru Pandit Ravindra Attibuthi has also taught Meenakshi and Hema Malini.
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The art of prose governed by syncopated thinking; for thoughts curdle in the heart if not expressed. An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
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Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.
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While, legally and constitutionally, speech may be free, the space in which that freedom can be exercised has been snatched from us and auctioned to the highest bidders.
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Heckler: I'll have your babies!!
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In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.
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A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.
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Playing the race card is done as if it were some kind of sport.
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Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.
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No man ever fell in love with me for the way I fill out a Lycra dress.
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In such a world-at such a time--'a decent respect for the opinion of mankind'-in the words of our Declaration of Independence-requires that we state plainly the purposes we seek, the principles we hold.
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When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.
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Love is a sudden revelation: a kiss is always a discovery.
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I have come to think that life is a far more limited thing than those in the midst of its maelstorm realize. That light shines into the act of life for only the briefest moment - perhaps only a matter of seconds. Once it is gone and failed to grasp its offered revelation, there is no second chance. One may have to live the rest of one's life in hopeless depth of loneliness and remorse. In that twilight world, one can no longer look forward to anything. All that such a person holds in his hands is the withered corpse of what should have been.
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Acting is not about competing. Acting is about cooperating. Acting is about collaboration. It's about your utility, your usefulness, your capacity to add to the work that has already been done and will be done. You're just part of a team. I never feel competitive about acting.
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Modern Americans - shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media - like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes.
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Grace and truth are spiritual DNA, the building blocks of Christ-centered living.
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The idea of beauty does not descend into matter unless this is prepared as carefully as possible. This preparation consists of three things: arrangement, measure, and aspect or form.
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The greatest revelation is stillness.
