Lao Tzu Quotes

If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?

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• Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Done
  • Nothing
  • Over

• People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Long
  • Hair
  • Misconception

• One of the ideas that I wanted to highlight, which is actually a very bipartisan idea - it's not just about conservatives - is this worship of wealth, the CEO saviour.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Ideas
  • Idea
  • Wealth

• I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Real
  • Want
  • Celebrity

• The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Character
  • Thought
  • Short

• I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Fun
  • Chance
  • Acting

• Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Respect
  • New
  • Greatest

• I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Bond

• I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Book
  • Myself

• What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Work
  • Man
  • Woman

• A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Women
  • Man
  • Words

• We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Road
  • Grand Canyon

• Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Same
  • Makeup
  • Inside

• What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Girl
  • Boy
  • Parts

• Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.

  

  Lara St. John
  • American
  • Player
  • Green

• When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

  

  Becky G
  • Writing
  • Start
  • Guitar

• Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • World
  • Empathy

• When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Lost
  • First
  • Vegas

• I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like to talk about ideas and get people to be specific.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • People
  • Important
  • Friends

• We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that's something we're proud of.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • Great
  • Trying

• While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Believe
  • Father

• I was broke when I lived in New York City during college, so I'd spend weekends walking around town, grabbing something to eat, and interacting with strangers. That ritual has stuck with me.

  

  Jenji Kohan
  • City
  • College
  • Walking

• If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Death
  • Afraid