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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True independence is not a gift to be received. It can't be a hand-out to people. It must be an achievement by the people.
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Know what you want to do, because if you don't know what you want to do, you'll get stuck.
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People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.
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Youth is a period of idealism. The Communists attract young people by appealing directly to that idealism. Too often, others have failed either to appeal to it or to use it and they are the losers as a consequence. We have no cause to complain if, having neglected the idealism of youth, we see others come along, take it, and harness it to their cause - and against our own.
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“I can't claim that I came out of it the winner. But I felt a lot like a kid who has finally found the guts to stand up to the schoolyard bully and tell him to take his best shot: bruised and bloody and thinking maybe that it hadn't been such a hot idea, but - what do you know? - still standing.”
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A winner listens, a loser just waits until it is their turn to talk.
