Epicurus Quotes
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
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I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
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I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
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Being an actor does make you aware of your age.
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It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.
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My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.
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Straight up. You can't mess with Jay when it's time to come play.
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I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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And, of course, I'm constantly energized by designing courses around the world.
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Cycling was the sport of our family - we did it all the time, five days a week.
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Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.
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We should not give $500 million to a corrupt organization that is selling unborn children's body parts.
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I've earned repose to heal the ravagesOf these angelic-looking savages.Oh, progeny playing by itselfIs a lonely little elf,But progeny in roistering batchesWould drive St. francis from here to Natchez.
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Maybe it was senseless to want to be near a person so badly here in a country where bullets had shredded her own brothers to pieces. But all Laila had to do was picture Tariq going at Khadim with his leg and then nothing in the world seemed more sensible to her.
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My history of singing has always probably been closer to a David Bowie approach than, for example, an AC/DC approach.
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Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable.
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I also came to understand that our authenticity (or lack thereof) is made evident by the fruit that our life is bearing.
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Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth.
