Epictetus Quotes
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.
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The 100m taught me a lot and it's given me confidence.
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An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.
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Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.
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I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
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Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.
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I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.
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Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.
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Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
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I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.
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I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.
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Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.
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Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.
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When people see the Cubevision logo, they should know it's something good, something worth checking out.
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I purposefully try to go through days without picking my phone up, and that's hard to do because we're so dependent on it.
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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
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Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well.
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Both of my girls have very high self-esteem because they were both able to master certain things; I should think that's good for their confidence.
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Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.
