Lao Tzu Quotes
The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer famine.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?
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In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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My plan was to land in Red Square, but there were too many people and I thought I'd cause casualties.
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I think you always want to have a project where it's not about you: where you're serving it. Where it has needs, and you're trying to meet those needs, so you're trying to lift it out of you and put it out there and then say to people, 'Hey, I think that's it; let's head that way.'
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I was so young when I got so famous, and then I kind of put up a wall around myself. I didn't really want to show people any fragilities or fears; I was trying to be this tough person that I felt was expected of me.
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A man is judged by the company he keeps, and a company is judged by the men it keeps, and the people of Democratic nations are judged by the type and caliber of officers they elect.
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The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer famine.
