Lao Tzu Quotes
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I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.
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I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!
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There is a standard joke in the family. Probably we should go into selling second-hand shoes.
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A lot of us have done bullying and didn't even realize we did it.
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I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good.
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I know from personal experience that it is extremely difficult to read while you work out, especially on a Stairmaster.
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In research, I wanted to establish the medicinal chemistry/bioassay conjugation as an academic pursuit, as exciting to the imagination as astrophysics or molecular biology.
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For dinner, I'll grill chicken with asparagus and call it a day.
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I'm able to switch gears at any moment.
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I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money.
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Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.
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I want all my pain to count for something.
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One of my favorite venues is the Bowery Ballroom in New York. I love the room; there's a tiny stage, but I really like the feel of it.
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In 1982, I wrote in my diary that life is motion, not joy. If the way you measure success in life is by how much joy it brings you, you're measuring inaccurately. Life is also sadness, defeat, striving. It is many things.
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...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.
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That's why there's lots and lots of kinds of hot sauces, and not so many kinds of mustard. Not because it's hard to make interesting mustard - you could make interesting mustard - but people don't, because no one's obsessed with it, and thus no one tells their friends.
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One of the things that personally kept me in music was that it has always been my passion,my vision and change. No matter how far I may think I can go without it, it always tend to slap me right back in the face! So why not do what naturally fills your soul. Music completes me.
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Anger. Control your anger. If you hold anger toward others, they have control over you.Your opponent can dominate and defeat you if you allow him to get you irritated.
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Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.
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Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.
