Lao Tzu Quotes
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
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We can't continue to take from our planet the way we do and not give anything back, and the idea of, 'Oh, but it's fine, I won't have to deal with it in my lifetime,' well, you need to think about the future generations who will have to deal with it.
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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As chairman of the tax-writing House Ways & Means Committee, I continue to be inspired by President Reagan's 1985 national address to the American people as he challenged them to join him in boldly reforming the broken, complex tax code.
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The notion that not only the biopolymer but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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It is hard for me to know what to paint. It comes slowly.
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I hate hearing me talk when I'm not in character, and I can barely deal with hearing me as a character.
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True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.
