Lao Tzu Quotes
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.
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It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?
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I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
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I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.
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I try to fit in workouts whenever I can.
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A revenue-neutral carbon tax would benefit all Americans by eliminating the need for costly energy subsidies while promoting a level playing field for energy producers.
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Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.
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You can't go voicing something if it's just not right.
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Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat.
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Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us.
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There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.
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I never want to go back and remix old records, either. If a record sounds shitty, that's just the sound it has. I just take it as part of the music. Some of my favorite bands - their old records sound terrible. But that's just part of the sound. If they were perfect, I'd probably hate them. Same thing with movies.
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I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music. More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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As soon as I wake up I pay homage to the Buddha, and I try to prepare my mind to be more altruistic, more compassionate, during the day to come so I can be of benefit to beings. Then I do physical exersice - I walk on a treadmill.
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To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.
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Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job, or a slum mother battling to give her kids a chance for a better life. But white is beautiful, too, when it helps change society to make our system work for black people also. White is ugly when it oppresses blacks-and so is black ugly when black people exploit other blacks. No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.
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You should always be dedicated and know that, if you strive to do something, you can achieve it.
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Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?
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The virtuous carry out the settlement, but those without virtue pursue their claims.
