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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
-
I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
-
I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
-
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.
-
Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
-
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.
-
Smoke machines are the best!
-
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.
-
My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
-
I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
-
If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
-
Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
-
I had to read Plato and Kant, and at times I was overwhelmed. But I have always been fearless, and so was Hannah Arendt. She wasn't afraid to speak out when she knew her opinions would not be popular because she believed in the public discourse above all.
-
You were born as the one you are.
-
I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'
-
Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.
-
I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it.
-
English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
-
I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
-
It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.
-
You've got to make the rehearsal room very safe. You can't bully people, because if you bully people, they're going to freeze and lock up.
-
If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.
-
If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.
-
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.
