Epictetus Quotes
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
Quotes to Explore
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.
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The Ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable art known to man.
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
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Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant.
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The food of a country is my story. It is a small story, but people relate so much to it. I want to share that, but also the idea of bringing people and family together.
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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
