Epictetus Quotes
What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.Epictetus
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
Octavia Spencer -
Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
Barry Schwartz -
I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
Rand Paul -
I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
Sam Raimi -
If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.
Taraji P. Henson -
I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
Dan Brown
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
Gabriel Macht -
What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.
Walter Dean Myers -
I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
Sam Heughan -
I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.
Rachel Platten -
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis -
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
Mahatma Gandhi
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
Sallust -
I'm not educated about cinema or genres.
Imtiaz Ali -
I'm not sure what 'cheeky' means. I hear it used so much and in so many different ways, I can't identify the real meaning of it.
Taylor Lautner -
You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
Pat Riley -
I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.
Yayoi Kusama -
A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.
Gabe Newell
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I used to play quite a good lead guitar, R&B style. Clapton and BB King are heroes.
Philip Kerr -
The north coast of Brittany is eaten into bays from which the sea retreats to considerable distances, and is fringed with reefs and islands. It is a favourite resort of Parisians throughout its stretch, from Dinard to Plestin.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
I haven't had vast amounts of ministerial experience - in fact, none at all. But I do have a lot of experience of people.
Jeremy Corbyn -
I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
Padma Lakshmi -
Longevity of focus, I think, is the hardest part. You know it's to have a vision and then try to hold that vision and not have it change.
Patty Jenkins -
What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.
Epictetus