Epictetus Quotes

Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things.

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• When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now.

  

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• This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.

  

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• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

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• This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.

  

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• No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

  

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• In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
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• I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.

  

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• I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

  

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• From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.

  

  Olivia Williams
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• I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.

  

  Earl Butz
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• If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• I find it really hard to relate to the Bond women or Angelina Jolie in 'Salt.' And of course it's informed by my experiences and the people I've met along the way and the places I've been.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
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• Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.

  

  Ione Skye
  • People
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• Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.

  

  Edmund Phelps
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• I always thought I should be treated like a star.

  

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• Design can successfully bind the ancient nomadic cultures with today's global marketplace, ensuring the preservation of traditions and knowledge for further generations. This aspect of research is obviously rich in its business potential as well.

  

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• Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.

  

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• Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.

  

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• He that is rich is wise.

  

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• Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

  

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• Escapism or nostalgia, for me, is not about having a terrible life and trying to get away via imaginary ideas or something.

  

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• Momma tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied, and that leaves only me to blame, cause Momma tried.

  

  Merle Haggard
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  • Blame

• It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.

  

  Michel Foucault
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• Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things.

  

  Epictetus
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  • Worried