Epictetus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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All over the world, people are looking at India and saying 'wow', and that's because we have begun to say 'wow' ourselves.
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Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.
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Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
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I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.
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I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights.
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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
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At the end of the day, my legacy will not be modelling but my cosmetics line.
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My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.
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I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
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42% of our management team are women. So we've reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that's when Westpac becomes 200 years old as an institution - the oldest bank, and indeed the oldest company in Australia. So that's a lovely point to reflect on.
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I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations – rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.
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There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way.
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At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
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That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
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There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life.
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Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it from its profound homeland and the look that it casts upon the outer world is gently dismayed.
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What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.
