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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There are probably more internet hate sites about me than Charles Manson.
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It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether they talk or stay silent. You never get tired of watching it. And no matter how rough the waves get, you’re never bothered by the noise the water makes by the commotion of the surface - it never seems too loud, or too wild.
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A lot of times I feel like people stick around in a relationship because they feel a primal need to be with that person for whatever reason.
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Being in a studio is quite a creative and energetic process.
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You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.
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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.
