Epictetus Quotes
Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.
Epictetus
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If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
Gary Weiss
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
Kangana Ranaut
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There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own. I still think of my solo work as my 'home planet' in comics, though I've learned to listen much more to editors and trusted friends for feedback.
Nate Powell
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I am strictly against remaking a movie.
Mahesh Babu
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Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
Orlando Cepeda
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Since my residence at Tippecanoe, we have endeavored to level all distinctions, to destroy village chiefs, by whom all mischiefs are done. It is they who sell the land to the Americans.
Tecumseh
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I wish I was a bit shorter, as I think shorter people have better walks. Freddie Fox, the actor, is shorter than me and has an amazing gait; and Tom Cruise has a brilliant run. I'm just gangly.
Jack Whitehall
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I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.
BeBe Winans
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There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.
Edouard Manet
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The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.
Vera Farmiga
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I like it, but it's yellow, and I'm like, I didn't want yellow for my engagement ring.
Paris Hilton
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You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable.
Buzz Aldrin
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Our economy has become completely different, on the whole. The size has changed. The economy has almost doubled in size. And the quality is changing, not as fast as we would like it to, but the structure is changing. Our Armed Forces are completely different today from what they were, say 15 years ago or so. All of this, including our great history, great culture, all of this, not just what we see today, is what makes the vast majority of Russia's citizens feel proud for their country.
Vladimir Putin
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Everyone is a threat, and anyone can be beat at any given moment. No one is invincible.
Georges St-Pierre
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That persons have opposing interests and seek to advance their own conception of the good is not at all the same thing as their being moved by envy and jealousy.
John Rawls
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Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.
Epictetus
