Epictetus Quotes
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.
Quotes to Explore
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.
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I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.
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I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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I'm on Facebook anonymously. I wanted to see how people use it, what's going on there, but I personally didn't want to be on it because everybody in the world tries to get to you with scripts.
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In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
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Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
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The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
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There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
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I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don't think that's right. I'm not going to ask other people to invest in something if I'm not prepared to do so myself.
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Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn't bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.
