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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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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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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Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.
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'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity - of opportunity in the social, political and individual life.
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One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
