Epictetus Quotes
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.
Quotes to Explore
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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Don't get me wrong – I've gone to a club. But I'd much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. I'll go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug!
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Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.
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My mom is very excited for the fact that I got signed and, of course, being a mom, she's going to be a little worried.
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When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.
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I did always dream of being a professional player. I think every kid does dream of being a pro, but to last the journey you have to love tennis as a sport and if you are lucky enough to make it in the pros, it is really a bonus.
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A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.
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As expanding economies continue to grow, the one source of energy that we can develop rapidly, cheaply and with next-to-no emissions is nuclear energy.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.
