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.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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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.
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I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.
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It's nice to have boundaries, because as long as we have them, we can cross them a bit, and that's what perks interest. If you have full freedom, what do you do?
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Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and I am just thrilled to be a part of that process.
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Cotton Mather is one of those classic figures of American history who can't be left out. One has to explain him or explain him away, redeem him or denounce him.
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My parents are like religious atheists.
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Most people are squeamish about saying how much they earn, but in medicine the situation seems especially fraught. Doctors aren't supposed to be in it for the money, and the more concerned a doctor seems to be about making money the more suspicious people become about the care being provided.
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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.
