Epictetus Quotes
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.
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I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
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I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
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Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.
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Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
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In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.
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No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.
