Lao Tzu Quotes
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The challenge that so many people have is not knowing how to take that first step of reaching out to another person for help.
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Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard.
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My father died when I was 14, and my mother juggled two jobs so she could make sure my sister and I were OK.
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No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law just because they are responsible for upholding the law. Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely, just like what happened to Laquan McDonald.
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Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.
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I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
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I've been blackmailed a billion times. I've been sued for ridiculous things. At one point in my life, I was an ATM machine. But I'm used to that. You don't get used to it, but I'm used to the fact that people will do this, even your own family members, and I don't hate none of them.
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The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced 'Billy Elliot' is very, very exciting.
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It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
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I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.
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I was asked to be on 'The Colbert Report' last year as Big Bird and Oscar. But when we got there, we discovered they wanted both characters on at the same time. Stephen Colbert didn't know one man plays them both. We called Joey Mazzarino, our head writer, who's a very good puppeteer as well. He agreed to zip over and do Oscar.
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I never use a piano stool. I always use a drum stool. Because I feel that when you're down there, you're playing in that way you're supposed to. I like to be above it.
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I always feel if I work hard, if I can practice 100%, then the results will come. Whether it's the first tournament, the third tournament, it's going to come.
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Bullies really bother me a lot. A lot, a lot.
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It's every teenager's dream to be in a band, tour the world and be famous.
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Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.
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Absentes tinnitu aurium præsentire sermones de se receptum est.
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My fancy dress costume of choice is... something 1920s or 30s, when there was still so much elegance and attention to detail. An excuse for ultimate dressing-up indulgence.
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I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.
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A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.
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Look at us human beings: it's so much easier to be right than to love.
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I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
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Be merciful, moderate, and modest.
