Epictetus Quotes
We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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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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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
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If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
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Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.
Nastassja Kinski -
I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.
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You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive.
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My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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I want to play Lena Horne because I've always been fascinated with her. Her talent was astounding and more than that, her life story is incredible.
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I found that it was easiest to convey the information in the context of the life of the scientist or in the context of our own personal experience, and there was no idea that was too complicated that couldn't be explained clearly and directly.
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Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better; but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former.
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We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.
