Epictetus Quotes
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If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.
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I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
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I realized, 'Oh, it's easier to get what I want if I embrace the sex symbol thing.' Microphones are more in my face, and I can say things about the kids that I mentor and open more access to more doors.
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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'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.
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I want to know that I gave my 100 percent, and even if it doesn't work, you know that you gave everything, and you don't have to look at it and say... I could have gave more - that would break my heart.
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After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.
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I'm the type of person who doesn't want to sit alone in a restaurant or bar.
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If haters or whatever want to find you - I mean, some of them are so tenacious. You want to hire them to work for you. They're very, very savvy in terms of how they find you and get to you.
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Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.
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I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
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You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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If people are talking about your movie and they're like, 'Yeah, it was ok' - that's the last reaction I would want! I would rather people would say, 'Oh, I hated it!' or 'I loved it!' rather than 'Oh, it's ok.'
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I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!'
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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Whoever doesn't worship God by choice will worship the creation by necessity.
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Here's to new blood.
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In the performance of our duty one feeling should direct us; the case we should consider as our own, and we should ask ourselves, whether, placed under similar circumstances, we should choose to submit to the pain and danger we are about to inflict.
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I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.
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Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.
