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 could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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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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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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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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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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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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If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.
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The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.
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I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.
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The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.
