Epictetus Quotes
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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I've been things and seen places.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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When you convince sci-fi fans you've done something cool, you get them in huge numbers.
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I've directed 'Raisin in the Sun' five times. You keep discovering things. You keep on seeing things in the script that you never saw before. That's what great pieces of art do.
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Love is a component of many different things - the baggage you bring, the moment, what you need in your life, seeing someone as a portal for understanding everything, and all the intensity that brings. It's not something to count on and act like it's a stable thing.
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The spirt of 1916 is as relevant and inspiring today as it was a century ago.
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If I have taught my sons anything in life, it is to have integrity - to always tell the truth, and I believe they have.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
