Epicurus Quotes
The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
Quotes to Explore
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.
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I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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Angela Merkel puts Germany first.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.
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The truth is I'm a very traditional woman, and Rod - despite everything people may think - is a very traditional man. It's true he absolutely loves glamour, and he hasn't got a conventional job, but performing aside, he's happiest at home with his kids around him or lounging in front of the fire watching a war documentary like 'D-Day Remembered.'
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If you ask anyone who my mum's blue-eyed boy is, they will say it is me.
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Look, when I look back, from 20 onwards, I was actually having a pretty good time, I have to say.
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I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in.
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Every novelist knows – perhaps everyone knows who has written even a letter, or a page of a diary – that the process of composition involves two separate sensibilities.
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The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
