Lao Tzu Quotes
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
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I don't think I have a black-hat image.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.
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I've got a coin with my face on it. It is really bizarre.
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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
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The government must adopt a rights-based approach that speaks to the needs and aspirations of surrogate mothers, children born out of surrogacy, and all individuals who want access to altruistic surrogacy services.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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I know conventional wisdom has always been to go to Europe, and I did that early on, and I tried it, but I realised pretty quickly if I wasn't playing, nothing else mattered - I wasn't going to be happy.
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As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future... A lot of it is a new awareness of time and life and the wheel of fortune crushing you and lifting you and crushing you and lifting you.
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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
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I allowed the actors to have freedom and sometimes change words if they needed to or thought that another word was more current.
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Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
