Lao Tzu Quotes
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar peaceful projects against discrimination in such major areas as employment and in the armed services.
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We didn't raise this issue, the courts raised it. The courts jammed it down our throats, at the risk of insulting any of my gay male fans.
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I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.
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I'm absolutely delighted if people think of me as a reliable purveyor of quality period stuff.
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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
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Every part I get, I just think I'm so lucky. They're so hard to get, you know.
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People are talking of his susceptibility to the rising delivery, but let me tell you that when you are out of form, every ball looks like a hand grenade.
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There's been a lot of lies written about me.
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There is something that has become part of my routine that I eat two or three times a week. Sushi. It exists in Europe but isn't very popular, and especially in L.A., I started eating it. It's both tasty and healthy.
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I'm quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I'm relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.
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I never went to college - I barely got out of high school.
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Some people don't care why they are famous; they just want to be famous, and that makes my skin crawl a bit.
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I was raised a proper Southern boy.
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I just want to tell stories that are meaningful and have inspiration to them; people can watch it and take away something, or maybe they'll just think about themselves differently or think about the world differently. I just want to create characters that live on.
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The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
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If you're going to buy pasta, you should buy dry pasta. If you're going to make it you can make the real thing, but you shouldn't buy fresh pasta.
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I was writing poetry, and the Mountain Goats was an outgrowth of that.
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It's because Jesus spoke so frequently about hell that the church should take the concept seriously.
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Truly, with such facts as these before us, we might well faint for fear did we not know that there is a mightier Power above all the hosts of the Prince of Darkness, One Who regards us with feelings of wondrous love, Who is not only able, but yearning, to shield us from the destroyer now, and Who purposes shortly to deliver us altogether from the anxiety, the terror, and the danger, of his assaults. For although the Lord has not yet formally deposed the rebel, and arranged a new government, He does not leave the world entirely to Satan’s mercy. Angels of God penetrate the realms of air, encamp round about them that fear Him, and protect them from the malignant foes to whom they would otherwise fall an easy prey.[72] Nor are their numbers insufficient: the servant of Elisha beheld the mountain full of horses and chariots of fire round about his master.
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Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms.
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First, you decide what you want specifically; and second, you decide if you're willing to pay the price to make it happen, and then pay that price.
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We were working from very exact models and dimensions and weights of clay to make these pots which had been designed some 10 or 12 years previous to our arriving at Bernard's Leach studio. And we, being, I guess you would say young, arrogant Americans, thought that we ought to be able to somehow express ourselves a little bit more in the daily work of the pottery.
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Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful.
