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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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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'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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I'm a strong fighter, I'm a fighter who can adapt to my surroundings.
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Communication is important.
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I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!
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I would rather make my name than inherit it.
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A teacher's not going to bother being tough on you for no reason; it's when they're not paying you attention that you should worry.
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I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have deprived me surely of those exquisite moments of mental flatulence which every now and then inflate the cerebral vacuum with a delicious sense of latent possibilities-of stretching oneself to cosmic limits, and who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
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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.
