Epictetus Quotes

If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.

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I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
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By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine.
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I think social media is good for promotion, stuff like that, but people are so negative. People are too negative. If you read the comments, it's just too negative.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.
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Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.
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I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
Nastassja Kinski
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Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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Of course what is talked about in the U.N. General Assembly is very important. Officials, the leaders of nations, appear there to speak of the most important topics - what they perceive to be the most important topics.
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Concerning Poland, I can only say that the peoples of Central Europe and Hungary are a community in fate, to the death. Many of us would spill our blood for Poland any time. And vice versa: in an emergency, many Polish people would give his life to protect Hungarians. This has happened more than once over the course of history.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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The way I work is I like to immerse myself in the world of the film and in the character's lives, and then from that, I get a lot of ideas of how the film could be made, how it could be told.
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Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
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So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.
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This is not the time to marry. My country is calling me. I have taken a vow to serve the country with my heart and soul.
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Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.
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If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.