Lao Tzu Quotes

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

Lao Tzu

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• I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.

  

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• Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

  

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• That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.

  

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• Women are sacred.

  

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• The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.

  

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• Crisis or transition of any kind reminds us of what matters most. In the routine of life, we often take our families-our parents and children and siblings-for granted. But in times of danger and need and change, there is no question that what we care about most is our families! It will be even more so when we leave this life and enter into the spirit world. Surely the first people we will seek to find there will be father, mother, spouse, children, and siblings.

  

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• Ego is something that everybody, creative especially, has to grapple with. You need enough ego to keep going but not so much ego that you're deaf or blind, that you're making a mistake and can't fix the course.

  

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• When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.

  

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• The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Moral
  • Prohibitions