Epictetus Quotes
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I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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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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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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There is nothing more worrisome to ISIS than cooperation between 'the West' and the Muslim world, for it defies the narrative of a clash of civilisations the group is trying to revive.
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The medieval Islamic world, from Central Asia to the shores of the Atlantic, was a world where scholars and men of learning flourished. But because we have tended to see Islam as the enemy of the West, as an alien culture, society, and system of belief, we have tended to ignore or erase its great relevance to our own history.
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We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.
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My idea of religion is we are supposed to bring people together. We are not supposed to judge other people.
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People are used to dealing with risk. You are told if you smoke, you are at higher risk of lung cancer. And I think people are able to also understand, when they are told they are a carrier for a genetic disease, that is not a risk to them personally but something that they could pass on to children.
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When you do life a certain way, it's bound to give you a higher level of probability to succeed, and that's what we preach.
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At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
