Lao Tzu Quotes
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I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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I connect with people on a daily basis.
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I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.
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Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ‘em. You’re not gonna change any of them by talkin’ right, they’ve got to want to learn themselves, and when they don’t want to learn there’s nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.
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The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.
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What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao.
