Epicurus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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Humans don't 'need' math-based cryptocurrencies when dealing with other humans. We walk slowly, talk slowly, and buy big things. Credit cards, cash, wires, checks - the world seems fine.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.
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I think about 'The Simpsons,' which has been going on for 25 years. Homer is still in his late 30's. Lisa is 8, Bart is 10. Their stories are told. Yet the series keeps going on and on like a zombie that won't lie down and die. That feels forced and unnatural. The characters never change, grow, age.
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It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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We have to use every tool at our disposal and that's why we're trialing a badger cull. We need healthy wildlife living alongside healthy cattle. Only if we work to eradicate the reservoir of TB in our badgers, will we have the strong and prosperous dairy industry the public wishes to see.
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I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.
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We have a 25-year head start for the stories of 'Scorpion.' By the time we get to Season Two and Three, the stuff that happened because of Season One will actually fuel Season Three. So it'll become a self-sustainable show.
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Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment.
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If I hear one more tailgate in the moonlight, Daisy Dukes song, I wanna throw up.
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I can write music but I'm not much for words.
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Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.
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There is not a country on earth that could get its fiscal house in order by shrinking opportunity and depressing growth.
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Obama lost his ability to push his agenda through Congress when he received what he himself called a 'shellacking' in the November 2010 elections. That shellacking was primarily the result of massive policy overreach when he had a Democratic Congress in his pocket.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
