Epictetus Quotes
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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.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.
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The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.
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I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov
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Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew that he wrote his own music, and he seemed nice, so I found out he was going to be in a practice room, practicing his trumpet. He'd already said he was too busy to hang out or hear any new people or work on any music, so I stalked him.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.
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I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.
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Even though I retired from coaching, I still believe that is my calling.
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I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it?
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
