Epictetus Quotes
Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.Epictetus
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I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
Ian McDiarmid -
The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
Viggo Mortensen -
Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
Rainn Wilson -
I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
Karen Robards -
At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
Tabitha Soren -
Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
Ed Bradley
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
M. J. Rose -
I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
Tamara Mellon -
The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
Gary Bettman -
Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
Ira Glass -
To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
Yami Gautam -
Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!
Florenz Ziegfeld -
Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
Quentin Blake -
I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
Nas -
Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I'd made enough money by the time I was 12 to never have to work again.
Macaulay Culkin
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The moment an athlete doesn't train, things start to get a bit rusty.
Gareth Gates -
I had a moment in the Library of Congress among the presidential papers. I opened a folder, and there was an envelope in it. The front of the envelope was facing the table, so I didn't know what was in it. I opened it and out spilled all this hair. I turned the envelop over and it says, 'Clipped from President Garfield's head on his deathbed.'
Candice Millard -
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
Karl Kraus -
A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again.
Muhammad Yunus -
Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
Epictetus