Epictetus Quotes
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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When you speak directly at things and don't say you're going to try to do something or that you hope to do something, the universe will work with you. Think about it this way - a boomerang goes out and comes back to you if you throw it. If you throw it out at the universe, it will come back down to you on Earth.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.
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It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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I just keep happy and help the team when I get an opportunity.
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I love Christopher Bailey and Burberry, Mulberry for bags, and Hudson for jeans.
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Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.
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With acting, I didn't get much from it.
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I ran for office originally as part of this Tea Party Movement because we were upset with Republicans who've doubled the debt. We were upset with Republicans that bailed out the banks.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. … Whenever the Westerner hears the word 'psychological,' it always sounds to him like 'only psychological.'
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I'm interested in art for all. I don't want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.
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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
