Lao Tzu Quotes
Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream.
Quotes to Explore
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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I've always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.
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Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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The Senior Tour is a good concept, although frankly I'm not astounded at its continued success. It gives a lot of guys an opportunity to extend their careers.
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'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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There's no reason - not yet, anyway - to believe [Bob] Dylan himself endorses such an attitude; or that he would think of himself as a more profound and worthy recipient than, for instance, any of the brilliant Motown or girl-group lyricists who are more likely to be awarded a Nobel prize for chemistry than for literature. Whether there is more truth and humanity in his best lyrics than in Abba's, or less, is unquantifiable, and it would be meretricious to attempt such a calculation in contesting an argument he has been dragged into.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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Hold onto your dreams 'cause they're always worth havin'. Hold on to your dreams til the day your life is said and done.
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Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.
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Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream.
