Epictetus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation.
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'Homefront' was written by Sylvester Stallone. He actually wrote it for himself, which is, for me, an amazing privilege: To be handed a script by Sly that he wrote for himself, that he asked me to do.
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Mr Blawke always reminded me of a heron; I'm not sure why. Something to do with a sense of rapacious stillness, perhaps, and also the aura of one who knows time is on his side.
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There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
