Chrysippus Quotes
Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one's experience of the actual course of nature
Quotes to Explore
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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All my books are optimistic!
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My wife Kris and I enjoy keeping an active lifestyle, so it's hard to imagine what it would be like if breathing problems kept me from participating in the activities I love to do. But that's exactly what happens to many people who develop COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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All of us grow.
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Healthy forests and wetlands stand sentry against the dangers of climate change, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locking it away in plants, root systems and soil.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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Who buys French cars? Not me.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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I'm very happy alone.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
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The fact is I don't lead a simple enough inner life. I indulge in excesses, bacchanalia of the spirit. Perhaps I identify too much with everything I read and study. Someone like Dostoevsky still shatters me.
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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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This is going to seem odd, but I love Eminem because he has so much conviction and emotion in the way he raps. Every word that he raps, you feel it.
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I'm not attacking anyone. I have no animosity towards Lana, I was just trying to put things in perspective from personal experience
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I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.
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Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one's experience of the actual course of nature
