Lao Tzu Quotes
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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I was in culinary school for a little while, but it was just too hard to cut weight and cook at the same time.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.
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I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.
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Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.
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Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
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When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.
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You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.
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I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.
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The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become.
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There is no accountability in soft money. None.
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Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.
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It's always nice when people say nice things or are complimentary.
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I really don't have a favorite meal. I eat anything.
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Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you’d like them to be, although often they turn out the same
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I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.
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Since 1890, the Tour d'Argent's basic recipe hasn't changed. If you find yourself at the restaurant tomorrow, you will eat duck in the confidence that it was what someone ate a hundred years ago. You will eat it in the expectation that someone else will be served it a hundred years from now.
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Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
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A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend. I can't imagine any better preparation for the work I do now.
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Act without expectation.
