Lao Tzu Quotes
The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.
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Coffee makes me go crazy.
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You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
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Nowadays people sell millions of records that can't sing.
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The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.
