Lao Tzu Quotes
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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Being evil is easy.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.
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To produce good sculpture it is not necessary to copy the works of antiquity; it is necessary first of all to regard the works of nature, and to see in those of the classics only the method by which they have interpreted nature.
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The cool part about naming your kid is you don’t have to add six numbers to make sure the name is available.
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Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.
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Specialization in this world is rudimentary and self-sufficiency characterizes most individual households
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What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.
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Because he (the Sage) opposes no one, no one in the world can oppose him.
