Lao Tzu Quotes
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
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Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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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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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
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... men are not astonish'd at the operations of their own reason, at the same time, that they admire the instinct of animals, and find a difficulty in explaining it, merely because it cannot be reduc'd to the very same principles. ... reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls.
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I love singing so much. As a kid, that was what I wanted to do.
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To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there.
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Among the great names that adorn the roll of Nobel prize-winners in Medicine is that of Otto Meyerhof, my admired teacher and friend, to whose inspiration, guidance and encouragement I owe so very much.
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Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
