Lao Tzu Quotes
The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.
Quotes to Explore
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
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I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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'It ain't justice, Richard, but politics, and like all politics it ain't pretty, but well done it can work wonders.'
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No one's trying to get with jugglers.
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I mean, Dad was one of these people who simply could not lose, you know? He could not stand it when a kid was beating him. He would go crazy when the child came to that moment, which, you know, you have to come to - I mean, Dad played Old Maids like he played football. He just simply had to win every single thing every single time.
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For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are "like" everybody - that is the bitterest blow of all to the ego. But in the end it is only the truth, no matter how ugly or shameful, that is right, that fits together, that makes real people, and strangely enough - beauty.
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The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.
