Lao Tzu Quotes
The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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I get a lot of backlash for wearing designers that I feel are creators and artists. I get it all the time.
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The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
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3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it's in 3D, it bothers you.
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I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, 'When we are gone' - when you're a kid, you never think they'll ever be gone - 'you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.'
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I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.
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'Wet Hot American Summer' was sort of lowbrow genius, you know? But smart in its cultish silliness. It wasn't considered something of great cultural caliber. But like many cult pieces, it sort of became something culturally relevant, which I think is what's so wonderful about it.
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It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I am a Bolshevik.
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The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
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Death always seems to be around me.
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Give deliberately. Giving is at its best when it's a conscious effort that's repeatedly made.
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I think I might get laid more...by my dad.
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I can tell you that Rey is an incredibly brave young woman who starts off alone and encounters Finn, and they go on an amazing adventure, and she makes relationships she never could have imagined, and she sees things she never could have imagined.
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There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.
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The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.
