Epictetus Quotes
You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
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For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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I just have an inability to lie.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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If God can be found through the medium of any drug, God is not worthy of being God.
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He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.
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With four kids, it's hard to watch anything other than 'Sesame Street.'
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We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain.
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You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
