Epictetus Quotes
You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.
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When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
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Without a dog, you'll be without at least one creature who thinks you are the smartest, most decent and heroic human being on the planet.
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
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Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.
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I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.
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I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
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You cannot have adoration without being criticized.
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We want to make the Cleveland Cavaliers a perennial champion and contender. We want people to be part of the franchise for long periods of time if they fit our culture, no matter who they are, whether it's LeBron or anybody that contributes.
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Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.
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I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.
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You can't be an entrepreneur and work in a public company anymore.
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There is something about the live performance of an orchestra that makes it very different to a film. With a film, you can rewrite it in a way with the material you have, and in rehearsals, you're really trying out different things. In an orchestra, you can't do that. They separate as soon as the performance factor comes into play.
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You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.
