Lao Tzu Quotes
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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A president can't go to every memorial service.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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I would love to work with the great movie actors of our time.
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
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Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.
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As we got older, we grew comfortable in roles that met our parents' expectations. Nora was the smart one. Delia, the comedian. I was the pretty, obedient one. And Amy was the adventurous mischief-maker.
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I want to see more sports in schools.
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Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.
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The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
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I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.
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Two of the chief defenders of the faith in the Old Testament and in the New - Moses and Paul - were both well-versed in the language, the thinking, and the philosophy of their cultures.
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Without a doubt there are women who would vote intelligently. There are also men who knit socks beautifully.
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I’ve had all the monstrosity I want.
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So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.
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Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice succeed.
