Lao Tzu Quotes
Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.
Quotes to Explore
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An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.
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I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.
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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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I actually didn't really start to get into the research of film until I was much older. I decided I wanted to direct a lot earlier than I started to do the research, which is really strange, but it is the case.
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Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
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I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.
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It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
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And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
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All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
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I don't think anybody can totally change what they are. I'd always been a strident individual, but cancer does smooth off a lot of the edges. I have been lucky to have survived an extra 12 years of my life with my wife and daughter.
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My first attempt at real music was when I was 13. My first signed band was when I was 21; that failed. I got another deal at 26; that failed, and then I was broke.
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I learned that it's OK to be stubborn about your craft, and it's OK to demand excellence from the industry.
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Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don't do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of other people waiting to do it.
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I like the idea of getting to dress up, like to do a Barry Lyndon or something about the Napoleonic period, the grand army retreating from Moscow. I understand that there's a craft to acting and a lot of people work hard at it. I just know that music is my first love. I love music, I love film, and I love clothes.
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Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.
