Lao Tzu Quotes
Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
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For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
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Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.
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When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.
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Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frosting intact, haul out the psychic calculator and start tinkering with the budget.
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I think, sometimes, artists release music too fast. If you just sit back and listen to the track for a little bit you could pick and choose how you want to do it and see if you really feel the song, because sometimes you might not even like the song after a few listens.
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I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of the established religions.
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Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.
