Epictetus Quotes
It is unreasonable to think we can earn rewards without being willing to pay their true price. It is always our choice whether or not we wish to pay the price for life's rewards.
Quotes to Explore
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I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?
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I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.
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My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.
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I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.
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The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
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I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic.
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Working with Lasse Hallstroem was like a rollercoaster, because he doesn't have one specific vision. It changes daily, or it's always evolving.
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The kind of roles which you get, people identify with your roles, and it then leads to the kind of brands you get.
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As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a clear conscience.
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It is unreasonable to think we can earn rewards without being willing to pay their true price. It is always our choice whether or not we wish to pay the price for life's rewards.
