Lao Tzu Quotes
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
Karin Slaughter -
Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
Harold Bloom -
I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.'
Victoria Legrand Beach House -
Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
Federica Montseny -
During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
Laini Taylor -
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
H. L. Mencken -
My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky -
The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.
Maggie Smith -
The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
Xavier Becerra -
I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
Aaron Levie -
With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
Caprice Bourret
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Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.
Walid Jumblatt -
I got lost but look what I found.
Irving Berlin -
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
Ogden Nash -
The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
Gary Zukav -
After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.
Taryn Manning Boomkat -
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. Bradley
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If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.
Martin Lawrence -
I've always been ready to embrace what's around the corner because it might be just the thing that I need to help me grow.
Dave Davies The Kinks -
My job is quite suitable for full-time mothering.
Mare Winningham -
We me and husband had been learning about the Khazars, and I had read Michael Chabon's novel Gentlemen of the Road the year before, so all these things are kind of roiling around in my brain, and then I slipped on the ice and I broke my wrist, and it had to be surgically repaired.
Emily Barton -
If I'm feeling healthy - like, I've eaten well and have drank a lot of water and have clothes that feel good - I feel good.
Jess Glynne -
Water does not force its way.
Lao Tzu