Epictetus Quotes
For he who is unmusical is a child in music; he who is without letters is a child in learning; he who is untaught, is a child in life.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
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I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
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I had wanted to place the Eye-in-the-Sea at an oasis on the bottom of the ocean, in some site rich with life that was likely to be patrolled by large predators. The first time I got to test the camera at such a place was in 2004, in the north end of the Gulf of Mexico, at an amazing location called the brine pool.
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I've worked with some actors who have such thick skins and think they are so extraordinary. I'll think, 'Have you stopped learning?' They stop listening to directors or other actors and do the same thing again and again.
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Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.
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I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism' that changed my life: with what I earned, I left Texas and moved to Los Angeles.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.
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When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.
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You have to learn to live with the hard things in life and go on.
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I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.
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Tuesday night at the Bible study we lift our hands and pray over your body, but nothing ever happens.
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The monarchy needs publicity: they must be seen to be relevant. Unfortunately, they can't just lead quiet lives.
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A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards space.
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For he who is unmusical is a child in music; he who is without letters is a child in learning; he who is untaught, is a child in life.
