Epictetus Quotes
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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People fight today for the same fundamental reasons the Greek historian Thucydides identified nearly 2,500 years ago: fear, honor, and interest.
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Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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I'd like to be an actress when I'm older. I sometimes do improv. I used to do it with my dad.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
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I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, of course.
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Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.
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I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character.
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.
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The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations.
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Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.
