Epictetus Quotes
Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it.
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Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.
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It seems like WikiLeaks has better information on Hillary Clinton than she does herself.
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A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
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To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
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Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in 'Downton' will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.
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My career is an open book, but my life is not.
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.
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You know you're a bigot when you can't take out the word 'Muslim' from a sentence you stated and replace it with 'Jew' and still have it be socially acceptable.
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I can't predict the future of football. I don't think it'll go the way of boxing because it's a team sport. It's built into our education systems, the flagship for a lot of universities' fundraising campaigns. So no, I don't think it'll go away.
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There is something very independent about French balloons - you feel you couldn't make a pet of one.
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Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions.
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I firmly believe that success lies in the combination of both talent and business savvy, and that the magic comes through partnership between both.
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Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it.
