Epictetus Quotes
Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.
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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
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I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at least, it gives you the language to talk about them. But at the same time, if a scenario is completely disconnected from reality, it's not all that interesting.
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I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
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Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
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When anyone recognizes you on the street, they are always very nice and genuine and excited to meet you.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.
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I think there is room out there to show the grace and dignity of women like Laura Bush.
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.
