Epictetus Quotes

If you can make music with someone you don't need words. If you wish to be a writer, write.

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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
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Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.
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I don't think I can speak of the achievements of Indian cinema because it's so large next to me. It's not stopping. It's ever-growing. We are going towards the right direction. We are evolving as a filmmaking industry as actors, directors, producers, singers, musicians. Everybody just pushing the boundaries.
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In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development path: export-led growth. As a result, emerging markets have had to rely once again on domestic demand. This is always a difficult task, given the temptation to over-stimulate.
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My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their record collection, so I love everything from Joni Mitchell to Bruce Springsteen.
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One of the things that fascinated me about modeling was that you had the freedom to look any way you wanted.
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When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man.
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Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.
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Being born white in South Africa or anywhere in the empire and Commonwealth automatically conferred this special status. You had no problem finding a place to live, a job, trade union membership, access to social services. Being white, speaking English, you were accepted as English, entitled to all the rights of citizenship.
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If you can make music with someone you don't need words. If you wish to be a writer, write.