Epictetus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
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When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!
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When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.
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The ocean is the lifeblood of our world. If we were to lose our fish that we appreciate so much by overfishing; or if we were to lose some of our favorite beaches to overbuilding and pollution, then how would we feel? It's become a case of not knowing what you've got until it's gone.
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I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.
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As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.
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I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
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Teenagers want to be able to fight for what's right - but finding out what's right is now 90 percent of the battle.
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I challenged myself to carry on the style of guitar that my grandmother did: the Carter scratch.
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For every $10 you reduce the price of the smartphone, 100 million more people will buy them.
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As lifespan increases fertility rates go down all over the world. Humans will create better technology and space travel will increase. These are all good signs for the future.
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You base man you,—how can you look me in the face after what hath passed between us?—See here, perfidious wretch, how I am forc'd to bear about the load of infamy you have laid upon me— -O Macheath! thou hast robb'd me of my quiet—to see thee tortur'd would give me pleasure.
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Blessed be those souls who are glad! They are a salve for sorrow and fatigue. A sun in days of darkness, a joy in sorrow, a ray of heaven shining through the uncertainness of earth.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
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Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.
