Lao Tzu Quotes
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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Yes, we get death threats every week... from the Muslims.
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I was the first and only person in my family to go to university, and I spent two decades redesigning myself: even my voice is the product of elocution lessons.
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That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.
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It's a sad state of affairs when we make fun of people for reading instead of making reading fun for people.
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I was raised on technology. I grew up in Livermore, California, a town of physicists and cowboys. My parents worked at the government laboratories there. So technology was very normal for me.
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When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
