Epictetus Quotes
If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
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If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a people pleaser in me, but not so much so that it's out of control.
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This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.
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There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
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Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.
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I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.
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I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.
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It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.
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People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
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The Internet is so big that no one can control anything, really.
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The identification of the genes which determine biological phenomena and the study of the control they exert on these phenomena has proven to be the most successful approach to a detailed understanding of the mechanism of biological processes.
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I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?
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I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.
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Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.
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I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.
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When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.
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I always grew up with the idea that in order to be a successful writer, I should have a book published.
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In the African-American community, we struggle with a lot of health problems that have a lot to do with our diet.
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Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.
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And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.
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With every project, you feel like you're trying to find your place to vent. For any actor, that's typically the feeling that drives you to do it.
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If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.
