Lao Tzu Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not a Republican.
-
I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
-
It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
-
I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
-
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
-
It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.
-
It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.
-
I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.
-
So when I'm working out I do things extreme.
-
To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
-
As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
-
I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.
-
You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.
-
No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.
-
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
-
Music is the only passion I shamelessly indulge in. However, for recreation I enjoy watching movies. 'Wizard of Oz' was the first film I ever saw, followed by the 'Bond' movies. I also watch a lot of World cinema through DVDs mostly brought by one of my best friends who's now based in Toronto.
-
There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people.
-
The recession's high unemployment rates may have encouraged people to start sole proprietorships, but there are many obstacles in the way of growing a company to create jobs.
-
The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.
-
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
-
Everybody has many people inside of them; I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first, in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want. It gets really interesting when this technique fails, and other levels are revealed.
-
I've worked with more than 50 directors and I've paid attention since day one. That's pretty much been my education, apart from studying art history and shooting with my own cameras. I've seen 50 different sets of mistakes and 50 different ways of achieving.
-
I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
-
See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things.
