Lao Tzu Quotes
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
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Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
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Nobody can make a putt that breaks to the right. It's unnatural. Unless you're left-handed, of course. Standing over a putt that breaks to the right can actually make you dizzy. I've long thought that right-breaking putts are a major contributor to mental and physical ill health.
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Feeling tired should almost never be an excuse, because your body has huge reserves of energy. But if you eat badly, stay out late, drink too much, and so on, you'll pay a price on the course.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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I think it is not necessary at this time to put forth a grand vision such as an East Asian Community. What we must do before that is create scenarios for Japan's response in case of a serious territorial incident.
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I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.
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A little recognition is not a bad thing because it means people appreciate your work. The only problem is when you can't walk down the street or have a meal without people looking at you. I want to be the one looking at people.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
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Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.
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One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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I don't want to compare myself to somebody like Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but I feel like, for some writers, going to a certain city, a certain place, is what kickstarts your imaginative process.
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A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.
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There's a collective knowing that a dimension of reality exists beyond the material plane, and that sense of knowing is causing a mystical resurgence on the planet today. It's not just children who are looking for a missing piece. It is a very mature outlook to question the nature of our reality.
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The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.
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Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.
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I remember a story of a girl in Paradise who ate an apple once. Some wise Sapient gave it to her. Because of it she saw things differently. What had seemed gold coins were dead leaves. Rich clothes were rags of cobweb. And she saw there was a wall around the world, with a locked gate.
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If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.
