Lao Tzu Quotes
Thirty spokes meet in the hub, but the empty space between them is the essence of the wheel. Pots are formed from clay, but the empty space within it is the essence of the pot. Walls with windows and doors form the house, but the empty space within it is the essence of the home.
Quotes to Explore
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.
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I've always been interested in making movies.
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My whole thing is feel free to hate me – I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.
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I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.
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This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.
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Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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I, who do not believe in socialized health-care, would advocate a single-payment system... because it will get this monster that we've created out of the economy and allow the rest of capitalism to flourish without the awful things that healthcare is doing to us.
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When I was in grad school, I wrote one early story that was Vegas, and then I stayed away from it. I was trying to expand and do different things. I knew I would write about it, but I stayed away for as long as I could.
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Thirty spokes meet in the hub, but the empty space between them is the essence of the wheel. Pots are formed from clay, but the empty space within it is the essence of the pot. Walls with windows and doors form the house, but the empty space within it is the essence of the home.
