Epictetus Quotes
Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.
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One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.
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I love the States and their attitudes about entertainment.
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
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There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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If I can still have Hollywood and a piece of Bollywood, I will take it.
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My responsibility is to follow the law.
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
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I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.
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I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
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The tale of 'Point Break' is about doing what you love and committing to what you love. It's relevant to me as a Venezuelan, to you as an American, to any Chinese person watching the film.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'
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No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.
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I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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There is nothing more beautiful than watching your body being taken over by what I’m doing to you.
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I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.
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Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.
