Lao Tzu Quotes

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

Lao Tzu

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Government has no place telling you who to fall in love with and who to marry.

Jesse Ventura

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The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.

Amanda Peet

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I was sending off my plays almost like an 8-year-old would send letters to Santa Claus. So it was a bit of a miracle when the Blank Theatre Company actually called and selected a terrible little play that I wrote.

Stephen Karam

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Drumming's pretty physical. We sit at the back of the stage getting beat up like a workhorse.

Tommy Lee

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Even the way Mamet describes silences within his plays is different. There are pauses; there are pauses within parentheses; there are pauses before dialogue; there are pauses in the spaces between the dialogue - there's this extraordinary vocabulary of silence which is all there on the page, mapped out.

Tom Sturridge

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Anger is not an accepted thing for women. And, you know, I do get angry. I feel it's a very honest emotion.

Rosamund Pike

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To those who say it would be too difficult to repeal and replace Obamacare, I say it's a two step process. We repeal the Pelosi Congress in 2010 and replace the Obama Administration in 2012.

Mike Pence

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We need to look at the totality of the things that we're labeling as violent and really examine whether we need to have some more proportionality in terms of the punishment fitting the crime that's done. The bright line that we have right now, between violent and nonviolent, does not account for shades of gray.

Cory Booker

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I idolize Gene Hackman. He is not a natural star, not an incandescent personality like Jack Nicholson, but he makes luminous the problems of being an ordinary man in an extraordinary situation.

Brian Dennehy

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I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric light.

Chubby Checker

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I wanted to design a line based on Hollywood's Golden Era. I talked with Stephen Burrows and with Willi Smith and with one or two other people, but it just seems like such a hard field to break into. I need someone like Calvin Klein's manager to get behind me!

Aretha Franklin

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Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.

Annie Besant

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