Epictetus Quotes
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
Quotes to Explore
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I have a lot of road rage. Mostly with the rickshaw and cab drivers trying to cut me; it's the traffic. Grrrr!
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Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.
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Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.
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The art of boxing is seeing spaces and being able to take shots. The hitting and being hit have to become one. Your reactions have to be so in the moment. There's no time to think.
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When I'm recording my album, I want to be acting, or when I'm on set, I want to be making music. I guess we'll see how it turns out and which one overpowers the other... but I couldn't really see my life without them, both of them.
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Groupon's model: Getting the group discount rate first, finding the group second. The daily deal goes out and, if a minimum number of people sign up, they can all share in the group rate. Vendor gets customers, customers get a discount, Groupon gets a cut.
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I won't do anything unless it's the absolute best.
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Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.
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I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibility as well and one I relish.
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I'm really into fashion, but I don't really spend that much on clothes. I manage to find everything I want at a good price.
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Ferrari gives you a special feeling.
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You have to build trust among team members so that people feel free to admit what they don't know, make mistakes, ask for help if they need it, apologize when necessary, and not hold back their opinions.
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Feel ashamed of my generation. We've let down our children and their children.
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The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.
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I love watching old sitcoms. It's very inspiring to watch 'Mary Tyler Moore' and 'Golden Girls.' I have watched them over and over again for years.
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I've missed a lot of trains in my life, and another one always comes.
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I only ever run when there's some point to it - say, if it's in a game of tennis.
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I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.
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A lot of people might define a life well lived by how much is in the bank. I feel like it's how much you laugh.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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I could not help feeling that they were evil things -- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.
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When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer.
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Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
