Lao Tzu Quotes
As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward; the bottom is bent up. It adjusts excess and deficiency so that there is perfect balance.
Quotes to Explore
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
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It's not like I have boxes of scripts arriving at my door.
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Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.
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And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months.
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I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.
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We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
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As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward; the bottom is bent up. It adjusts excess and deficiency so that there is perfect balance.
