Lao Tzu Quotes
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The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.
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Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.
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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
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I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.
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I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character.
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Death never excites such sympathy as it does when it assumes the shape of murder.
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The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many be corrupted.
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I just want to keep improving, to keep getting better.
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Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores.
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I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
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Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
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But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic.
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I have voted to make tough decisions in budgetary times, I've served on two recessionary budgets, my opponent has never served on any a budget committee where there was less money to spend than the year before.
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Congress has the responsibility to ensure that any international trade agreement entered into by the United States must serve the national interest, not merely the interests of those crafting the proposal in secret.
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Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.
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I took all the courses you would need to be able to go to law school. But my experience in college with football made me want to go into coaching.
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We invest very heavily in the employees. We get the return, and the employee gets the return if they stay with us for a while. So, we focus on people that will commit to us for the long run.
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There is no wealth but life.
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Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.
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It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war.
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Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.
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I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here.
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What has not yet emerged is easy to prevent.
