Lao Tzu Quotes
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Quotes to Explore
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I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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Socialism requires that government becomes your god.
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I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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I envy those who can wear red lipstick or any bold lip colour, really. My top lip just doesn't seem to take colour - there's nothing I can do to change that, so I usually just use a nude on the bottom lip.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.
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There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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Design helps shape our everyday interactions through products, furniture, objects, or experiences.
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Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one.
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I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.
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It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.
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When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
