Epictetus Quotes
Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
Quotes to Explore
-
We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
-
Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
-
My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
-
I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
-
Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
-
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
-
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
-
The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
-
I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
-
Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
-
I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
-
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
-
In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
-
The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
-
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
-
I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
-
The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
-
I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
-
Less money for public media means less access to the arts.
-
One should respect a defeated opponent!
-
I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
-
I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.
-
People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only dream about. And filmmaking offers that potential.
-
Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
