Lao Tzu Quotes

I alone have the mind of a fool, and am all muddled and vague. The people are so smart and bright. While I am just dull and confused.

Lao Tzu

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• Confused
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• I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.

  

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• When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

  

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• Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.

  

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• Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.

  

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• It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.

  

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• When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.

  

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• God doesn't know things. He is things.

  

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• I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.

  

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• I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.

  

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• Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.

  

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• You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!

  

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  • Fun
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• I've had to be tough my whole life.

  

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  • Life
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• There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It can lead to friendships, support, and serendipitous connections with reviewers, agents, reporters, or editors.

  

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• My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.

  

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• Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.

  

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• I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.

  

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• She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.

  

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• Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

  

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• And she has a thousand virtues and not one acknowledged sin, But she is the sort of person you could liken to a pin. And she pricks you, and she sticks you, in a way that can't be said, When you seek for what has hurt you, why, you cannot find the head.

  

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• After I graduated from college, while traveling around Europe, hitchhiking, doing the tourist thing, I went into a church in Dublin.

  

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• An infirmity which affects the whole race, is no proper object for the scorn of an individual who belongs to that race, and who, before he could expose it, must himself have been its slave.

  

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• People often ask me why don't you have a girlfriend. Then I smile and say: I have thousands some just haven't met me yet.

  

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• I alone have the mind of a fool, and am all muddled and vague. The people are so smart and bright. While I am just dull and confused.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Mind
  • Confused