Lao Tzu Quotes
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People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
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Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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For my brothers it was easy to think about the future. They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become educated and empower myself with knowledge.
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One thing that bugs me in comedy is when somebody does a fake cry, you know, like they fake cry in a comedy. But in a drama they'll really cry. That bugs me.
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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My television and movie career has also taken me all over the world. I've had great times in the Far East, Russia, South America and Sweden - where I met my wife of 55 years, Maj.
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To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.
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As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.
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I built Kosovo for 10 years.
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My instinct is to be very controlling.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.
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All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old-English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings, all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight.
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Obviously the way that I talk and the way that I dress all has to do with the way that I was raised. As far as the drive, when I was 18 or 21 years old, everything I did was because I wanted to go play music simply because that's what I wanted to do.
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.
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I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.
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One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
