Epictetus Quotes

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

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When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks - Citibank, Bank of America - but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street.
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.
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In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
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What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
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I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.
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What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.
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Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.
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Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
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In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.
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Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
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I do love to perform. And I'm ever so grateful that this has turned into a job with a future.
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I have survived so long because I've been blessed with talented and gracious colleagues and with a top brass who let me choose my topics every week and then allowed me to express opinions that were not always popular. Well, someone had to stand up to the yackety-yak soccer cult.
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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.