Epictetus Quotes
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.
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Showbiz can be cruel.
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I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
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Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.
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It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.
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Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.
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There are signs jobs will be plentiful in the future, if we train and prepare for it. That means investing in technology, innovation, and, as much as Republicans will hate to hear this, renewable energy.
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Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.
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Good results are sometimes owing to a failure of judgment, because the faculty of judgment often hinders us from undertaking many things which would succeed if carried through without thinking.
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Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
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I love the theater because it's alive. It's a beginning, a middle and an end, and it begins a life.
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I can only imagine what the show would have meant to me as a 16- or 17-year-old. I know what 'Rent' meant to me in my life, how that show changed the course of my life, and we can only hope that 'Hamilton' will have the same effect on a few kids.
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We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
