Lao Tzu Quotes
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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.
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Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.
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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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Comedy is such a vulnerable thing. With drama, you're not trying to make someone cry. If you do, great, but that's not your goal. With comedy, you're trying to make someone laugh, so to me, it's harder because you are in such a vulnerable position. You're like, 'I hope people like this. I hope I do the joke justice.'
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I would sooner receive injustice in the Queen's courts than justice in a foreign court. I hold that man or woman to be a scoundrel who goes abroad to a foreign court to have the judgments of the Queen's courts overturned, the actions of her Government countermanded or the legislation of Parliament struck down.
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He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.
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What Plato was really asking was perhaps why a horse was a horse, and not, for example, a cross between a horse and a pig.
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If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
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Justice has long arm.
