Epictetus Quotes
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.
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When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
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If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.
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I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
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What force is more potent than love?
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I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
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The American dream comes from opportunity. The opportunity comes from our founding principles, our core values that's held together and protected by the Constitution. Those ideas are neither Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, white, or black. Those are American ideologies.
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I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.
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Back during the most dramatic and challenging time in our history, when we first came together with wolves, we had no idea that it was changing everything, but we literally evolved together. Without us there would be no dogs, and vice versa.
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I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry.
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I've outlasted many marriages at Random House.
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I've never played Scots or got the chance to do my Scottish accent. I'm always trying it out in auditions, but they always say no. I'd love to act in a Scottish accent for once.
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I consider the voice a gift from the heavens, and as all the gifts from the heavens, they must be used, but the minute that the heavens call it back then of course I will stop.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
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No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out for yourself, and by the time you do, it's ancient history to many of the players. We're trying to make sense of the past, so we start to excavate our memories.
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I'm not disappointed - just disappointed.
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The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
