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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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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In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.
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I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.
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I trained as a dancer when I was much younger, for a large amount of time, like 6 or 7 years. Not to be a ballet dancer, actually, but I thought it was a complement for an actor. I thought that actors should know how to move, should know how to juggle, should know how to do acrobatics.
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Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.
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Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
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I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
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Battles are followed by years of famine.
