Epictetus Quotes
Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn't really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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It's so lovely to know that people who you would never think know about Bollywood, they know about Bollywood.
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Did you really think I would sell you out?
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.
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There are very few great poets in the world.
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Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
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I met Jared Leto at Soho House in Berlin.
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Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.
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Whoever thinks... that the European economy can be competitive without economic cooperation with Russia, whoever thinks that energy security can exist in Europe without the energy that comes from Russia, is chasing ghosts.
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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.
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Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but there are no savage races today who do not practice cookery in some way, however crude. Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.
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Unfortunately most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
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Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
