Lao Tzu Quotes
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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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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I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.
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I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.
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The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
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London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.
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If you're a vegan fast food joint in L.A., you just don't speak the same language as the heartland.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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I think a comedian has to be low status on some level; that gives you the right to do all sorts of jokes about all sorts of different kinds of people.
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I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.
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A belief is only a thought that you keep thinking. So as you keep thinking this thought, you keep vibrationally attracting relative to that thought. So you confirm your own beliefs again and again and again and again and again. That's why someone who believes in cancer can confirm that belief, or someone who believes in robbery can confirm that belief. So everything is a sort of confirmation of belief.
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Be the chief but never the lord.
