Epictetus Quotes
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
Quotes to Explore
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'
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I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.
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If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.
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With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.
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I think that any woman who had a conversation with me and had an opportunity to truly understand my life story wouldn't view it through a critical lens. There are people, of course, in the world of politics, who look for things to be critical about. But those people are already against you.
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Meditation is a really powerful tool I have for life now. The only reason I know about it is because I was stressing about writing and a friend taught me it. It's been useful.
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My years as a therapist working with abuse and neglect families taught me at least one important lesson for my own life. Never judge until you can see through the eyes of that person you are judging, and then... never judge.
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One of the biggest regrets I have in life is not getting an opportunity to work with Yash Chopra.
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... I had a latent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution - not for old associations' sake, I am afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very up-hill and down-hill, and very unlike any way in which any man in any natural circumstances of life or death ever expressed himself about anything.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
