Lao Tzu Quotes
Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion.
Quotes to Explore
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I love the States and their attitudes about entertainment.
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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My responsibility is to follow the law.
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When attempting to make a plea for more peace in the world at a rock concert, we are reflecting the feelings of all those we have come in contact with so we may all have a better understanding of each other.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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All I can do is just do stuff while I am alive and hopefully that track record will speak for itself.
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We all have that capacity to lose our humanity when circumstances force us to do so. It's not specific to people who live in Africa or Latin America or Asia. And equally, we are capable of regaining ourselves.
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Learn from the people. Plan with the people. Begin with what they have. Build on what they know.
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They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
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Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion.
