Epictetus Quotes
If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.
Quotes to Explore
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I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'
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I retweet Amnesty International tweets a lot. It isn't just, 'This person is incarcerated unjustly.' It's also, 'This person was just released.' Those are the victories we work toward, so if we don't inform people of the victories, it does become doom and gloom.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
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If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!
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Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.
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I do love to capture beauty in this world. And photos can last the test of time.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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My father died when I was 14, and my mother juggled two jobs so she could make sure my sister and I were OK.
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To survive is to win.
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I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
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Lunch is for wimps.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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Healthcare is the only civil system where new technology makes prices go up instead of down.
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My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.
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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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My favorite thing to do in a new city is find new fast food. I seek it out. I'll tweet and ask people what their favorite local place is, and if I get four or five with the same answer, then I'll check it out.
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Expressing anger is necessary.
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For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.
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I would tell the young Francesco Totti to repeat everything that the older Totti did - if he's able to!
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It would be great if people returned to areas of the country that need talented people with good economic prospects. Our country would really benefit if those who went to elite universities, who started businesses, who started nonprofits, weren't just doing so on the coasts.
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If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.
