Epicurus Quotes
Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.
Quotes to Explore
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I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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Angela Merkel puts Germany first.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.
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I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of the sky floats about them; the feeling that one's taxis, and shopping, all go on in the deep canyon-beds of natural erosions rather than in the excrescences of human builders.
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But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
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The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.
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Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.
