Epictetus Quotes
Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit.
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I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
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I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
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We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.
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The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
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Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.
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It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.
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People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
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Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
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I believe we can do more in making the President's vision for space exploration a reality by awarding cash prizes to encourage greater participation of the private sector in the national space program.
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You know you're living with the habit of zest if you purposefully choose the scenic route to wherever you are going. Or you choose clothing because you love the texture of the fabric. Or you pick a shampoo or cleaning product because you love the smell - smell being just as important to you as how the product works.
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Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history.
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I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
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A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
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I always think that I have plenty of time for everything, and then the reality of it doesn't quite match up.
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Some coaches prefer players who will just do whatever he tells them to. It's like, if you're at school with a load of 10-year-old boys and you tell them to jump, everyone will start to jump. But the intelligent boy will ask, 'Why should I jump? Why?' That can be difficult for a lot of coaches, and I understand that.
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Either you face the challenges in life head on or back out. And I am not someone to back out from challenges.
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
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I'll be one of the spokespeople, one of the people who sells the Administration's plans.
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The critical study of the philosophies of the past should lead to the study of modern theories. For these latter, born of the fire of contemporary struggles, are militant and alive.
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Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit.
