Lao Tzu Quotes
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.
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I believe accurately remembering - and honoring - our whole past is the first step in governing in a way that effectively represents the whole America.
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At sleepovers I would have panic attacks trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me without outing myself.
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I don't know whether they will give me a project just because I am cooperative and behave nicely, but it really helps. I never demand for anything or never throw tantrums at work.
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I'm not bad-looking, but I'm not a beauty, either.
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There are people who've enjoyed my work in the theater, and they let me know that it was special for them. I'm not going to say, 'Well, you should have seen me as Gandalf!'
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At most I'll spend three or four hours daily, sometimes less.
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Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing.
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I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.
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The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
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One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic.
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We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts.
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The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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When I was first painting the Monopoly guy I received a criticism. People said, "You're just painting cartoon characters, anyone can do that," but I'm actually a very skilled artist. That's why I released a Jack Nicholson portrait right after that that was very detailed in the face to show my skills.
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I sometimes think that the prevalent use of external cosmetics eats out the internal brain if persisted in long enough.
