Lao Tzu Quotes
To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths.
Quotes to Explore
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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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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I'm competitive. I don't like to lose.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!
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President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
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I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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Like Russell, I enjoy the fact that when I'm playing solo, if I want to do something completely spontaneous, I don't have to worry about how I'm going to cue the other musicians, or if it's something that's rehearsed.
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The Budget Act of 1974 established a timetable for the annual budget process. Under Title III of the Act, Congress is to complete action on the concurrent resolution on the budget by April 15.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it.
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They try to paint the picture that I was this downtrodden, ugly girl who was unpopular in school and in life, and then I got this role and now I’m awesome. But the truth is that I’ve been awesome, and then I got this role.
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To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths.
