Lao Tzu Quotes
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
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If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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How many times have you opened a book, read the first few sentences and made a snap decision about whether to buy it? When it's your book that's coming under this casual-but-critical scrutiny, you want the reader to be instantly hooked. The way to accomplish this is to create compelling opening sentences.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance.
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I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.
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Eventually I got the call for 'Iron Man,' and I read sides that had nothing to do with what I did in the movie, and I performed it once while no one was in the room - it was videotaped, and I'm sure Shane Black was watching it from his helicopter or something. And then I got a call the next day that I was going down to shoot it.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others' positions, no matter how odious.
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And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.
Nastassja Kinski
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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Traveling and other cultures provide me with great inspiration, especially unusual people and cultures totally unlike my own. They generate many new ideas for me.
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Love itself compensates for any diminishment.
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When bitter enemies make peace, surely some bitterness remains.
