Lao Tzu Quotes
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My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.
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Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.
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Regulation creates a moral hazard.
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I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.
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We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.
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One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
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When I was younger I didn't have much financially, like we couldn't afford a lot of stuff and I remember seeing little girls' rooms on TV and they'd all be pink. I didn't have my own room, I shared with my brother, so I would have this daydream and imagine that one day I could have my own room and it would all be pink, like Cinderella's.
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The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.
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I like what I've seen. He's a very quiet, respectful kid but when he plays, he plays hard.
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How does one cure the soul? Through the senses.
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I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.
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The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.
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I started studying herbalism and edible plants that existed in the wild. And then I realized, "Okay, cool. I know how to make a fire with sticks and I know how to build a shelter, but I live 90 percent of my life in an urban environment, so these skills aren't really going to help me because there aren't trees that grow in Los Angeles that I can just take a branch and make fire out of, because that wood isn't conducive for that. So I started learning urban survival skills.
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There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.
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I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.
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I actually do write very emotionally, because it’s not going to make it out of the rough draft process if I’m not moved by the premise of what I’m writing.
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Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves.
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I consciously chose a person like the bounty killer of the Fistful trilogy because he was the street sweeper of the desert, a man who put his life at risk exclusively for the money. I'm not saying that he went against the law, but he put himself within the wings of the law only when it was something that he could profit by.
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The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.
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Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.
