Epictetus Quotes

You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?

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• Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Service
  • Leap

• I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Actor
  • Writer
  • Pretend

• Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.

  

  Karen Elson
  • You
  • Vision
  • Model

• I need to meet people to be able to write.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • People
  • Need
  • Meet

• I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Music
  • Why
  • Know

• It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Value
  • Logic
  • Evidence

• People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Money
  • Government

• If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Different
  • Opportunity
  • Stereotypes

• Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • True
  • Land
  • Israel

• If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Me
  • Best
  • Actor

• I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • Important
  • Organization

• Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Long
  • Values
  • Personal

• I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Rock
  • Wrestling
  • Favorite

• I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Women
  • Community
  • Health

• We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Road
  • Grand Canyon

• Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Good
  • God
  • Together

• For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • People
  • Better
  • Short

• Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Long
  • You
  • Film

• Kickstarter has shifted from funding creative projects to funding products and videogames; the biggest funded are consumer electronics and video game projects.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • Game

• My work has always been political, because the choice of being an artist is political in China.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Work
  • Political

• I was a dancer, growing up, and I definitely thought that was going to be my profession.

  

  Margaret Qualley
  • Up
  • Growing

• I've been in a few films that have been adapted and, as an actor, the amount of resources and things you can gain just from reading the story, as well as the script, are so massive that it's something you just can't put down.

  

  Asa Butterfield
  • Reading

• According to Buddhist practice, there are three stages or steps. The initial stage is to reduce attachment towards life. The second stage is the elimination of desire and attachment to this samsara. Then in the third stage, self-cherishing is eliminated

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Desire
  • Practice

• You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?

  

  Epictetus
  • Work
  • Birth
  • Fragment