Lao Tzu Quotes

To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay.

Lao Tzu

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• Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

  

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• Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

  

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• My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.

  

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• So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

  

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• I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.

  

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• Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.

  

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• The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

  

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• Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

  

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• I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.

  

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• I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.

  

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• Your mind is what makes everything else work.

  

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• When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.

  

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• Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.

  

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• I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.

  

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• If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.

  

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• As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where, I think, everyone can do the job, and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.

  

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• I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.

  

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• I get all dressed up with that Marianne Faithfull face, and the next thing I know, I'm blurting out things that I shouldn't, trying to get attention when, really, I've got everybody's attention already.

  

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• The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.

  

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• The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!

  

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• I don't think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always thinking about how to make cinema, not good talking - although I want good talking. I'm much more interested in framing, composition, and orchestration of bodies in space, and so forth.

  

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• To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Work
  • Bear
  • Claim