Lao Tzu Quotes
Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.
Quotes to Explore
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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After being nearly eradicated from the lower 48 states by the 1960s, bald eagles were re-introduced to the Adirondacks in the 1980s, and I'm proud to report the view from my home indicates they are flourishing in upstate New York.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
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I think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we were just trying to make each other laugh.
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There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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Beijing is my favorite city in China.
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The first album that I bought was the Nirvana 'MTV Unplugged in New York' album.
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Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.
