Epictetus Quotes
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
Quotes to Explore
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.
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I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.
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My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.
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So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.
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Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
