Epictetus Quotes
Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers; and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man. For your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well. The choice of the cast is Another's.Epictetus
Quotes to Explore
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
Tamae Watanabe -
It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
Aaron Sorkin -
You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
Ed Bradley -
Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
Carine Roitfeld -
A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
Jack Ma -
There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
Ram Shriram
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Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
T. J. Miller -
Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
Tali Lennox -
I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
Damien Rice -
The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
Adam Dell -
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
Natalie Dormer -
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
Abraham Lincoln
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Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.
Victor Pinchuk -
Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
Xenophon -
I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
Uma Thurman -
I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
Abby Wambach -
I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.
Barry Diller -
For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
Gary Clark Jr.
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We will continue to look for points of coinciding
Igor Ivanov -
This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time for them to listen.
Fannie Lou Hamer -
We as a nation have no choice but to conserve fuel to the best of our abilities or be prepared for harsh measures like steep price increase, if the need so arises.
Veerappa Moily -
When studios start telling me why a particular film project won't work, I remember 'Rocky.' I remember that the biggest success Bob Chartoff and I have had was a film nobody wanted to make.
Irwin Winkler -
I remember when I first found out I was having a boy, I became obsessed with buying boys' clothes. Then came my daughter, and I was obsessed with buying girls' clothes. Everything looks 10 million times cuter when it's teeny-tiny.
Kourtney Kardashian -
Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers; and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man. For your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well. The choice of the cast is Another's.
Epictetus