Lao Tzu Quotes

The wise man knows he doesn't know.

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• The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Up
  • Comedy

• I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Story
  • Audience
  • Experiences

• There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • People
  • Work
  • Action

• I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Wonder
  • Hero
  • Green

• A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

  

  Edmund Barton
  • People
  • Great
  • Education

• As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

  

  Ice T
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  • Why
  • Want

• Terror cannot be finished by one war.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • War
  • Terror
  • Finished

• There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Single
  • Moments

• What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.

  

  David McCandless

• You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • World
  • Children
  • Kids

• My current motto is to go for it, whatever it is that inspires you.

  

  Kylie Minogue
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• Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?

  

  Ben Harper
  • Believe
  • Fall
  • Morning

• The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Time
  • Cool
  • Swimming

• Don't need cars cause we've learned to fly on Saturn.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Fly
  • Cars
  • Saturn

• I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Happy
  • Should
  • Might

• The Lord needs women who will step forward in righteousness and say, 'Here am I, send me.'

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Women
  • Step
  • The Lord

• Our wants and needs distort to an unknown degree what we perceive. We block out a great deal of information that is potentially available if it does not fit our needs, expectations, preconceptions, and prejudgments.

  

  Edgar Schein
  • Information
  • Expectations
  • Degree

• I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.

  

  Wilson Mizner
  • Experience
  • Learning

• I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.

  

  Zhang Yimou
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  • Taste
  • Western

• I don't know what it is I exude. But whatever it is, it's whatever I am!

  

  Janet Leigh
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• The wise man looks back into the past, and does not grieve over what is far off, nor rejoice over what is near; for he knows that time is without end.

  

  Lao Tzu
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  • Grieve

• The wise man knows he doesn't know.

  

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