Epictetus Quotes
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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Any time you can get a muscle car back, it's a good thing.
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At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.
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I don't know if you can catch my vibe, but I'm a pretty laid-back guy.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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We must forget the prewar time, which was totally different. The sooner we adjust ourselves to the new, changed world, to its new, albeit harsh, beauties, the sooner will each individual be able to find his own personal happiness. The distress of Germany will spiritualize and deepen us.
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I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.
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I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.
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I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl.
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The ability to sympathize with those around us seems crucial to our survival, and it's connected to the mirroring functions of the brain.
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It's not like I had a breakdown, though it kind of felt like it at the time. I agreed to everything that happened. You can't really be at work and be like, "That's it. I've had too much. I'm going home."
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I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.
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Did you really love her? Did you really enter her heart and mind? Or did the two of you always remain outside each other?
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Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure.
