Epicurus Quotes

Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth.

Epicurus

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• Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Waiting
  • Playing
  • Nervous

• 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.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Dream
  • Lost
  • Fight

• 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.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Political
  • Control

• The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Great
  • Different
  • America

• During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Place
  • Mirror
  • Half

• 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.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Book

• I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?

  

  Banks
  • Heart
  • Judge
  • Own

• Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Women
  • Reality
  • Sharing

• My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Father
  • Me
  • Childhood

• Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Where
  • Anybody
  • Influenced

• Being an actor does make you aware of your age.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Age
  • You
  • Actor

• 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.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Live
  • Love
  • Community

• 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.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Different
  • Literature
  • Humor

• Straight up. You can't mess with Jay when it's time to come play.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Up
  • Time
  • Play

• I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Good
  • Realize
  • Good Old Days

• Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my dream to have people moshing at my gig, kind of that really feral element of the music coming out more. I love crowd-surfing.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Music
  • Dream

• I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Just
  • Singer

• And, of course, I'm constantly energized by designing courses around the world.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • World
  • Around
  • Courses

• Cycling was the sport of our family - we did it all the time, five days a week.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Time
  • Family
  • Week

• Can someone's true value really be estimated? Maybe there needs to be an Edmunds.com for people on TV. That would be funny and possibly cruel.

  

  Derek Hough
  • People
  • True
  • Funny

• For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like everyone else. I said what was necessary to join together, even when I felt separate. And after all of this, catastrophe came. Now I wander amid the debris, I am lawless, torn to pieces, alone and accepting to be so, resigned to my singularity and to my infirmities. And I must rebuild a truth-after having lived all my life in a sort of lie.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Lie
  • Wander
  • Morals

• Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • You
  • Find
  • Shopping

• I loved my time doing 'Private Practice' in Los Angeles, and I was quite challenged and excited to learn about the art of television, but I missed being on the stage.

  

  Audra McDonald
  • Time
  • Art
  • Practice

• Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth.

  

  Epicurus