Epictetus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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My hunger is always there.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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I don't feel closeted.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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I would go so far as to say I would not have the life that I have right now if it wasn't for Gabe Liedman. He is the first person I met in my adulthood that I felt was truly delighted by me and understood me and also was curious about me.
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Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves.
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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
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Also I just think I've been lucky enough to have great parents, and I've had good people around me who have always been honest with me, who would give me a purely metaphorical slap if I ever got too big for my boots.
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I spend so long writing each of my novels that by the time I'm done with one, I'm ready to discover a totally different world.
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To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.
