Lao Tzu Quotes
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
Camille Paglia -
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
J. Philippe Rushton -
If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
Nathan Myhrvold -
In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
Barbara Delinsky -
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
Otto von Bismarck -
Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.
Sada Thompson -
You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
Taylor Swift -
I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards.
I. M. Pei -
I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear.
Harpo Marx -
The constant influx of new cultures, new ideas and new ways of looking at old problems is a big part of the reason why America has been the most dynamic economy in the world for well over a century.
Gary Locke
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I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.
Ice T -
God enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I've had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being defined from within, and thinking for themselves instead of thinking about that silly culture out there, it's powerful modeling.
Naomi Judd -
The reason I moved to Nashville was because I was reading biographies of a lot of my country music heroes, and I thought it would be better to actually go where the history was, as opposed to just reading about it.
Lindi Ortega -
I find that my reading, particularly nonfiction, can inspire a poem as well as anything else.
Billy Collins -
I have an increasingly strong feeling that all of us, myself included, too many times make too many statements and don't ask enough questions.
Mark Kurlansky
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When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.
Edmund White -
The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.
Lael Brainard -
I am very conservative. I don't invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine.
Claudia Schiffer -
I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.
Natalie Portman -
Pounding an edge to sharpness will not make it last.
Lao Tzu