Lao Tzu Quotes
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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When I started acting, it was like a double identity crisis - your basic crisis, compounded by people saying, 'there goes Robards' kid, Bacall's kid.' Now I realize, sure, that gets your foot in the door, but once it's there, it's your foot. I'm not bothered anymore. I'm confident of my abilities.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
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My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I know, that trends and all of those things and formulae that calculate what audiences want to see and what audiences don't want to see and various other demographic demarcations are the eccentric and ludicrous prerogative of Hollywood studios. But out there in the real world - by which I mean the rest of the world where we make truthful organic films, independent films unimpeded by interference - it's not about all those sort of calculating what is commercial. It's about wanting to say things and saying them in a way that will get through to people.
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The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple – to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.
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When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
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We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.
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It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.
