Epictetus Quotes
It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.
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The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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I remember when I was little, much younger than I was when I started modeling, people always said, 'Oh, you should be a model.' But I didn't like people telling me what to do... But I didn't plan to transform into an actress, either. It just happened.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.
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A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
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My passion is capturing what it feels like to love, be it romantic or otherwise. I love to watch two people realize what they meant for each other - and that goes across all media, books, TV, movies, personal essays; everything.
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I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.
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For products with revision possibilities, there is no better source available than a company going out of business!
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I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.
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No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.
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Now one thing I think is really lame, is if you're an artist and you go to a karaoke bar and sing your own song. I like to get up there and sing stuff that I would never sing on stage anywhere else. Like Neil Diamond.
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I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.
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leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.
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We have a lot we need to improve on, ... We've got a long ways to go. Certainly, I don't think anybody here feels like we're satisfied with our passing game or our rushing game right now, so I think you try to do a good job of analyzing it. But certainly our work, and what we're concentrating on, are ways to get more production. I would say across the board we need to step it up. I don't think anyone is satisfied with what we're doing.
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Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.
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I just like movies, not one particular kind or genre. In fact, movies that are harder to classify I like more.
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Never lend people money you can't afford to give them as a gift.
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From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.
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Sometimes we praise the way things used to be in order to blame the present, and we esteem what is no longer in order to scorn what is.
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It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.
