Epictetus Quotes
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
Ralph Bellamy -
I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
Katey Sagal -
Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
Ted Nugent -
When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
Karl Ove Knausgaard -
I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
Gayle Forman
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
V. S. Pritchett -
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
Oliver Cromwell -
It hasn't really made it easier getting film work. It's not like I can call up a studio or a producer and say - insert haughty voice here - 'It's Parker. I guess you might know me as the indie queen. I'm wondering if you have any projects for me to be in.'
Parker Posey -
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
Samuel Johnson -
A man's kiss is his signature.
Mae West -
I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.
Yolandi Visser
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While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
Ma Jian -
The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
Walter Gropius -
If my parents ever had to ground me, they didn't really know what that would mean, because I was inside most of the time anyway.
Tavi Gevinson -
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
Malcolm Forbes -
You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.
Carl Hiaasen -
You'll see the most perfect person, and you are like, 'God, she's, like, perfect.' And then she'll tell you everything that's not perfect. Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
L'Wren Scott
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I've got, like, too many things that I'd like to try and do, so I'm trying to figure out where the natural pull is strongest.
Lucia Micarelli -
We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.
Peter Yarrow -
I love my jackets and good tailoring. I love the designs and the colour.
John Boyega -
Thank God for the gays. I don't know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
Bette Midler -
My girlfriend and I went to a dinner party the other night and we ended up playing charades. There was another couple there that was deaf. They were so good.
Zach Galifianakis -
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
Epictetus