Lao Tzu Quotes
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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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I think, No. 1, I still have a long way to go.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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You don't make a case for reparations thinking, 'Oh yeah, people are gonna love this.' I didn't see that coming.
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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
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Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?
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It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air.
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I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called 'Equis.' And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, 'I'm home.' I felt really at peace here.
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Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely.
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No longer are there immutable standards by which to judge ourselves. Image has overtaken reality.
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Good walking leaves no track behind it.
