Epictetus Quotes
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I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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My favourite smell on a man is Lynx and Marc Jacobs.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
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Theatre gives you wings as an actor.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
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If someone takes you out, and you're wearing sweatpants and a T-shirt, and they take you to a fancy place and you're unprepared, that's bad.
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I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.
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I think that's why I'm an actor: so I can tell those stories without having to really live through those stories with real consequences and real stakes, real responsibility.
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Human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different résumés. … It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse and dynamic.
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You don't want to diminish anybody's pain and suffering.
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I would like to have my gun for protection.
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For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system.
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Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
