Epictetus Quotes
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
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The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
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I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.
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While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.
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Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.
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You can't cancel my stand-up tours. It's impossible. There's too many separate bosses. There is no 'bosses.'
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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If you're not spending every waking moment of your life radically rethinking the nature of the world - if you're not plotting every moment boiling the carcass of the old order - then you're wasting your day.
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Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.
