Lao Tzu Quotes
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed – I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.
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I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.
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One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
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The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.
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When everything is going well, the role of the state in the economy should be limited. When we are in a crisis, it's different.
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I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.
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I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don't have any nails to manicure, and it takes me 30 minutes to get ready for a night out, as long as I've decided what to wear first.
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Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.
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And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.
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I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.
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Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.
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Authority is never without hate.
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I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.
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The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.
