Epictetus Quotes
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Epictetus
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I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful. It's got some suspense and great drama, but it's a real character thing.
Ed Harris
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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but to show that beauty isn't just about the outside.
Gabriela Isler
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I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.
Eddie Redmayne
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The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
F. Sionil Jose
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I am not Dwight Schrute, okay? I played a character for 200 episodes, and it was an awesome character, and he was a beet farmer. That doesn’t mean you should hand me beets or make beet jokes every time I go into Starbucks and ask if they have like a beet latte or something like that.
Rainn Wilson
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I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
Tahereh Mafi
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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
Samuel Butler
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Twenty-first century buildings support a 21st century education - because it is difficult to learn or to teach if you are shivering.
Martin O'Malley
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Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views.
Sharon Begley
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Epictetus