Epictetus Quotes
The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
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I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.
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I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
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It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.
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In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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I grew up in Florida riding horses, so for the majority of my life I was either in boots and jeans or a bathing suit.
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Writing obscures language ; it is not a guise for language but a disguise.
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I love Scotland - I was made an honorary Wallace after my work on 'Braveheart,' you know. If I have two or three days off, I love nothing more than driving up there and climbing around Glencoe.
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When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist.
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Trends can tyrannize; trends are traps. In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction.
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The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.
