Epictetus Quotes
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
Malcolm Gladwell -
As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.
Patricia Norris -
I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
Gary Shteyngart -
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
Carlos Fuentes -
In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
Jack Dee -
I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.
Carly Rae Jepsen
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Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.
Danger Mouse -
I'm not a stone-thrower when it comes to Hillary Clinton and her emails and her server. I don't think there has been criminal intent on Hillary Clinton's part. I don't see an indictment.
Gary Johnson -
I think what made John Lennon so exciting as an artist is that, like Dylan and other musicians with a truly important musical legacy, he had several faces, personas that changed over time as he developed.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?
Paddy Ashdown -
I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
Adam Carolla -
Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They're human roles rather than specifically men or women. I've never been as hooked into that as a lot of women are, you know, like, 'There aren't enough roles for women.' There aren't necessarily a lot of good roles for anybody.
Edie Falco
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To represent a country, qualify for the World Cup, and get a team to perform at the right moment in time would be great honour for me.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
People will still give me attention: even when my teeth are gone, I'll have some good stories to tell.
Nargis Fakhri -
Me.
Hank Aaron -
You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps.
L. Ron Hubbard -
The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.
Camille Paglia -
There was a story that some EMI execs had come down to see you and you'd said something like: 'Here's what I've been working on,' and then produced some cakes from your oven. True? 'No! I don't know where that came from. I thought that was quite funny actually. It presents me as this homely creature, which is all right, isn't it?'
Kate Bush
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This summer I have discovered something totally useless.
Peter Higgs -
When you're little all the things that are quirky and weird about you and that people laugh at, you find out are the things that are going to get you through
Macy Gray -
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch -
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
Epictetus