Epictetus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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 don't consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When there are directors who create characters for me, why should I feel bothered or insecure? When it comes to updating myself, I work very hard to relate to the emotions of characters I play.
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All those words of praise they use for novels – spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?
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I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round.
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Some say the economy means that you have to persuade people to invest in clothes - to buy less things but more expensive things. I disagree - invest in jewelry, or a house, maybe, but not in fashion.
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Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
