Epictetus Quotes
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By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.
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We want to promote people-to-people exchanges so that China and the United States can really join together, not just to solve the problems of China or the United States, but some of the big problems facing the entire world. From climate change to famine to even terrorism.
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There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.
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You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
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I love the hip-hop nation.
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I always remember liking school.
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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
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There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.
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I want to tap into different styles. Something definitely mature, sultry, sensual, easy listening that everyone can enjoy. Every one of every race and everyone that likes different styles.
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Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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When you love fashion, there is no weekend. Everything just blends together.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander.
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They're gonna be mad at us.They're gonna be mad at me and you.They're gonna be mad at us and all the things we wanna do.
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You can't write anything you want. Once you write that first chapter, then everything else is determined. You can write anything you want, but only one thing works.
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The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel.Over the cage floor the horizons come.
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My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and posted to Libya, she convinced some general to let her go with him. I don't know how she managed it.
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I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren't, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I've been able to go on and do plays and films.
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The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a longer poem, is finished enough to write down. I can hold several lines in my head for quite some time, but as soon as they are written down, the register clears, as it were, and I have to work with what is on the paper.
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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
