Lao Tzu Quotes
{The cleansing of spiritual contamination} is accomplished by offering one's talent, resources, and life to the world.
Quotes to Explore
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I would like to direct.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
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Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
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In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
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I kind of do all of this writing as a way of thinking and learning. I'm sure it's similar to being a journalist: You get to learn, and that's the greatest kind of job.
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I'm astounded by people who can listen to music when they write. I can only assume that they have multi-track brains, while mine is decidedly single.
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I was Irish; I was a woman. Yet night after night, bent over the table, I wrote in forms explored and sealed by English men hundreds of years before. I saw no contradiction.
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Boxing is my true calling. I've found my purpose in life.
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{The cleansing of spiritual contamination} is accomplished by offering one's talent, resources, and life to the world.
