Lao Tzu Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.
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I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.
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In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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My mantra is, I want to work with people that I like to hang out with, who are smart, where I can add value, that I think is an interesting space.
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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in their cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.
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He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
