Epictetus Quotes
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.
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The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
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These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
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The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set.
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When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.
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I don't want to be nasty but let's just say Robbie Williams is no Freddie Mercury.
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We do not want a religion that deceives us for our own good.
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The bigger you are, the harder they come down on you.
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There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.
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Comics play a trite but lusty tune on the C natural keys of human nature. They rouse the most primitive, but also the most powerful, reverberations in the noisy cranial sound-box of consciousness, drowning out more subtle symphonies. Comics scorn finesse, thereby incurring the wrath of linguistic adepts. They defy the limits of accepted fact and convention, thus amortizing to apoplexy the ossified arteries of routine thought.
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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
