Lao Tzu Quotes
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You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
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I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
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The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
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Cuban Americans have little in common with immigrants from Mexico and Central America, and often their priorities don't align. If it seems like Cuban Americans don't have to play by the same rules as everyone else, that's probably because they don't.
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Everybody has their own story - it's who you are. If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am!
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Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.
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I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.
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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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It is my sincere opinion that our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts of cruelty, death, and disease as a part of 'God’s Plan' or the greater good — and clinging to ancient texts that preach ill-concealed bigotry and sexism. Instead, we should find ways to make this life happy and satisfying, without regard to the unknowable nature of an afterlife.
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I think there’s this cult of objectivity in the U.S. about media. There are two sides to every story, but it’s not always objective that one side has as much right to narrate a story. I think it’s distorting to always impose that 50-50 impulse on everything you cover because otherwise you’ll be branded as “liberal” or “having an agenda.” Life is not 50-50…
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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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I remember the first guy who offered me a joint in the bathroom. I said 'No, man, I've got enough problems.'
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Battles are followed by years of famine.
