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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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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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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As a director, what matters is how you penetrate the soul of the person in front of the camera and let the actor blur the boundaries between the character and the person themselves. In order to achieve that, I try to make people feel at ease, to be mindless of problems and be skinless and give everything to the camera.
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I read. It affects every decision that I make. Every dollar that I spend, every dollar that I make.
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What you see is real - but only on the particular level to which you've developed your sense of seeing. You can expand your reality by developing new ways of perceiving.
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The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.
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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.
