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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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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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'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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You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive.
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I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.
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I think metal and horror definitely go hand in hand. Even when you go to a horror convention and meet the fans, nine out of 10 times if they're not wearing some sort of horror shirt, they're wearing a shirt with a metal band on it.
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People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.
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I've noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.
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It's a really natural thing: The people closest in your life are the people you want the first opinions from. At the end of the day, if you're not trying to impress those people first, then I think there's something wrong there.
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When you're the single French person in the middle of 10 Tunisians, the majority will impose their way of life on the minority.
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The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.
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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.
