Epictetus Quotes
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I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.
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In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.
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I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
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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 a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.
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I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
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I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
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It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.
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And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.
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It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you're young; your resilience is just terrific.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol.
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What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.
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I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. It was like one of those moments when I couldn't believe my kid is acting like this. I just had to just like walk away from him because he was really pushing my buttons.
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When the wise plant developer goes into his garden or orchard... his eyes turn always first and foremost to the leaves...
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The Wise Man believes profoundly in silence - the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and spirit. The man who preserves his selfhood ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence - not a leaf, as it were, astire on the tree, not a ripple upon the surface of the shinning pool-his, in the mind of the unlettered sage, is the ideal attitude and conduct of life. Silence is the cornerstone of character.
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Whenever someone leaves, the next person that gets pulled in is somebody with similar values.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
