Lao Tzu Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and detainment of you and me as U.S. citizens without being charged.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.
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One lonely voice still shouting labour!
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Earning of livelihood by following some profession is better than living on charity.
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Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call power!
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Yes, the strong gets more While the weak ones fade Empty pockets don't ever make the grade Mama may have, Papa may have But God bless the child that's got his own That's got his own.
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He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
