Epictetus Quotes
It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
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I've always lived a life where people have said, 'Look at him. Who does he think he is?' And who I think I am is someone living life to the brim.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
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I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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I've survived quite a few generations. That's because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.
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I want people to leave the theater and think, "How can I be a better person?" That's the only way things are going to improve.
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There is no such thing as a people who are all wicked or even all good. Everyone chooses. But even they, even they looked at people and saw only tools. No one is a cup for another to drink from.
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I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.
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It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.
