Lao Tzu Quotes
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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I've never been one to want to be the center of attention and be put up on stages every night. That's just not really my personality. I'm comfortable with it now, but my real passion is being creative.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.
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For me, having characters who are part of a faith then allows me to talk about how that faith either works or fails them without having to attack the institution.
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I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language.
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Guys are not good under pressure. They're just not good at multitasking, but on that note, we should be a bit less good at enabling them to, you know? That's a problem.
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Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.
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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.