Lao Tzu Quotes
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When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.
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It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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If the United States and China can accommodate each other on a broad range of issues, the prospects for stability in Asia will be greatly increased.
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America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
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I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I'd like to quiet any unnecessary rumors that may be out there. While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me.
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When I did 'Guffman,' it was terrifying. I didn't know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out.
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The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn't feel guilty about it at this point; it's kind of the norm. Sometimes I'll bounce around Twitter. And if I have time, I'll catch up on the news, usually on 'Huffington Post' or 'Salon.'
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I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.
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It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town.
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Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.
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All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
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The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.
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I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.
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The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'
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Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
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If many have their turns to rule, ... this will encourage all men to advance Righteousness and that the Commonwealth will hereby be furnished with able and experienced men, fit to govern.
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Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved and maintained as an effect of some racial advantage. Rather it should be understood as an evolving process, governed by a dynamic of change, as both language and thought underwent transformational alteration caused by a transition from orality to literacy. The instrument of change is discerned to be the invention of the Greek alphabet, at a quite late stage in the history of developing cultures.
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Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.
