Epictetus Quotes
If you have assumed a character beyond your strength, you have both played a poor figure in that, and neglected one that is within your powers. (79).
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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'Sleepless' was the first thing that came out and really gained a lot of traction online.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.
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Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.
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Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on.
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You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.
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I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile. Recognizing that I am part of history is what allows me to soar.
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If you have assumed a character beyond your strength, you have both played a poor figure in that, and neglected one that is within your powers. (79).
