Lao Tzu Quotes
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The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.
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I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.
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Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have become fans of songs rather than fans of artists.
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Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.
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Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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Food-wise, oh man, I tend to really indulge on vacation because a lot of my friends are incredible chefs. One friend makes an eggplant parmesan that is heavenly and melts in your mouth, and another makes a chocolate pudding that I can't resist.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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I love it when a guy compliments my vibe.
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
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The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
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I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
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Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds and shovel-ready stimulus programs of their day.
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Sometimes I can see the whole painting from the outset in my mind's eye. But more often than not, that idea doesn't last the duration of the painting. Sometimes it comes out easy, just as I had envisaged. But that is reasonably rare.
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Years are not important, my dear.
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To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.
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When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.
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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
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Seth Rollins is one of the hardest-working wrestlers I've ever seen.
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So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.
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We need to build systems that can automatically figure out what's high quality and what's not, and encourage users to contribute high-quality content. There's a lot of technical challenges in that.
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The job of a friend is not to decide what should be done, not to run interference or pick up the slack. The job of a friend is to understand, and to supply energy and hope, and in doing so to keep those they value on their feet a little longer, so that they can fight another round and grow strong in themselves.
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Be content with an ordinary life.
