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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The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
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Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.
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As actors, we have to be able to keep ourselves open to feel, and that's a life lesson I think many people don't get a chance to learn. In my personal life, I've learned to carry this lesson with me.
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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.
