Lao Tzu Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
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I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.
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The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.
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Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep: and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace.
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My standard uniform is a T-shirt and jeans.
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In the beginning, I thought it would be really glamorous, working in fashion. But it's actually quite hard. You don't even know half the stuff that goes on backstage.
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If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
