Lao Tzu Quotes
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Broadway is really my life.
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I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.
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My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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I used to swallow people's energies, and then I learned, as I got older, that I'm too sensitive, and I had to stop doing that. Now I don't take as much in.
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Regulation creates a moral hazard.
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But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.
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I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
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I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.
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It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.
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We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.
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One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
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'Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.'
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It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid and may even be intolerable.
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Oofy, thinking of the tenner he had given Freddie, writhed like an electric fan.
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Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.
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Well, there's nothing more touching than putting a smile on a kid's face when you can.
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When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
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I guess the biggest difference between me and many of today's female graduate students is that a lot of them were raised by mothers with careers, and they got college degrees studying with female professors. Both of those factors make the enterprise of educating yourself for a serious profession seem feasible.
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I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
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Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.
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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
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Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves.
