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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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
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When you're glad to be alive, good ideas come. The reason good ideas don't come today is because we're all bottled up with greed and anger. We're mad.
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Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.
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You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
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I grew up in Kentucky, so we do not have a pro team. My family was split between the Cubs and the Reds. I would say I go Cubs usually. That's sort of where I grew up. My older brother was a huge Reds fan.
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It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.
