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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Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.
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It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21.
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Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?
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I want to fall in love, I think. I've never. I know. Everyone I know's been in love or in relationships now and... There's only ever been... there's been people telling me they love me, but it freaks me out and I just run, run. I think I'm a bad girlfriend.
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There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.
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It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.
