Lao Tzu Quotes

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

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• Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
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• I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.

  

  Ted Turner
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• We know that if you just were to take the drugs that you were supposed to take for diabetes or hypertension, just take it, as opposed to not take it, we could save $7,000, $3,000 per patient per year.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
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  • Year
  • Diabetes

• I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Want
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  • Alone

• When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually didn't know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez.

  

  Madison Davenport
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  • Reading
  • Dawn

• The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
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  • Queen

• This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.

  

  Walter Reisch
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  • Spirit

• It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.

  

  Yael Stone
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  • Interesting
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• Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.

  

  Rand Paul
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• I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

  

  Pat Conroy
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  • See
  • Possibility

• I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.

  

  Zach Wamp
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• You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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  • Voice
  • Stand

• Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.

  

  Waylon Jennings
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  • Thought
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• You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.

  

  Caleb Cushing
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  • Constitution

• I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
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• Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Real
  • Bad

• I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

  

  E. B. White
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  • Literature
  • More

• It's nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
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  • Pursue
  • Avenues

• Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

  

  William Blake
  • Sorrow
  • Laughs
  • Weeps

• The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences - it's a nuttier movie, too.

  

  Wesley Morris
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  • Soldier

• You've got the Trump water and Trump Steaks and Trump's very so-called dodgy university. And so many of the towers, the Trump towers around the world, the Trump resorts around the world, those are not owned by the Trump Organization.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • World
  • Water
  • Trump

• Interviewing someone is very similar to preparing a character, isn't it? You're just asking questions: 'Who is this person? Why did they make that choice? Why are they doing that?' You're being Sherlock Holmes.

  

  Felicity Jones
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  • Character
  • Choice

• He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

  

  Lao Tzu
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