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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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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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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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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The part of Mike Wallace drew me to the movie because I thought, what an outrageous part to play.
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There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
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The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.
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What we can do where we live is advocate again to bring back to life the 10th Amendment, to bring back to life those boundaries in our constitutional system that were supposed to be the critical checks in the checks and balances system. Without them, we lose - gradually, we lose our liberty.
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There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.
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At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
