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.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Mother
  • Environment
  • Unique

• 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.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Harmony

• It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Music
  • Like
  • Consistency

• A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Just
  • News
  • Entertainment

• I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Opportunity
  • Cool
  • Camera

• I think, No. 1, I still have a long way to go.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Long
  • Think
  • Way

• 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.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Character
  • Moral
  • Parent

• I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Proud
  • Changed
  • Lifestyle

• Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • May
  • New
  • Back

• We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Freedom
  • Need
  • Speech

• We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Lost
  • Ground
  • Middle East

• 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.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Want
  • Emotional
  • Audience

• You don't make a case for reparations thinking, 'Oh yeah, people are gonna love this.' I didn't see that coming.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Love

• 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.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Action
  • Human
  • Find

• 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.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
  • Enough
  • Look

• 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.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Single

• You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

  

  Mae West
  • Live
  • Enough
  • Right

• I'd like to direct some, act in some of them, and produce.

  

  Corbin Bernsen

• I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I am very fond of Tolstoy and Chekhov, and I also enjoy reading Gogol very much.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Reading
  • Literature
  • Enjoy

• 'Dead Witch Walking' is basically a modern-day witch living in Cincinnati.

  

  Kim Harrison
  • Walking
  • Witch

• The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.

  

  William Scranton
  • Morning
  • Walking
  • Office

• I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • People
  • Walking
  • Intense

• Good walking leaves no track behind it.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Walking
  • Track
  • Leaves