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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Grief never mended no broken bones.
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You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.
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Another part of the challenge was to bring back things that you've forgotten about and maybe some things you haven't forgotten about, recontextualize them and have the series make sense.
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So often we don't give from our abundance. We give from what we have no use for. I have learned that God not only looks at what we give but also at what we keep.
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What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.
