Epictetus Quotes
If you would be well spoken of, learn to be well-spoken; and having learnt to be well- spoken, strive also to be well-doing; so shall you succeed in being well spoken of.
Quotes to Explore
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There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.
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I remember being described often as 'the horrifically ugly Jack McCall,' and I kept thinking it took me about 10 seconds to get like that.
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
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Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
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In fiction, there happens to be a long history of creative engagement with marginality, with the very human components of society that others don't want to think about, from writers such as Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud to Genet and Sarrazin and right on up to Norman Mailer.
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I had a diary full of lyrics and whatnot and a little voice recorder of guitar riffs.
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I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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I do pop, so pop is very broad. It could be anything from the Weeknd to Taylor Swift to Beyonce to whatever is on the radio, basically.
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Of course I love the action. I absolutely love doing action movies; it's what makes me tick, but I think my dream role is a movie that Will Smith's company has called 'Paper Wings.'
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I will come back to India - so deal with it.
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Meetings are usually terrible, but they shouldn't be.
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In 2005, I visited my home state of Texas, spending time on a ranch outside the town of Post. Then spending some time on a large ranch outside Archer City. I was taken by just how few young people I saw anywhere.
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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs.
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I never understood the idea of canceling a show when you don't like the politics of a specific state.
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We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.
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A piece of freedom is no longer enough for human beings...unlike bread, a slice of liberty does not finish hunger. Freedom is like life. It cannot be had in installments. Freedom is indivisible--we have it all, or we are not free.
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I denied this for many, many years and years... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mother in the character of Edna.
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Like Ekalaiva, I learnt a lot watching my father from afar. Though I did imitate him initially, I soon changed tack. When people have already watched and enjoyed M. R. Radha on screen, why would they need another?
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Time and persistence has shown me that I can succeed at sharing my art with others as a musician while running my own music business. And that kind of success is as good as I could have ever wished for.
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If you would be well spoken of, learn to be well-spoken; and having learnt to be well- spoken, strive also to be well-doing; so shall you succeed in being well spoken of.
