Epicurus Quotes
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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.
Damien Hirst -
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.
Naval Ravikant -
ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
J. B. Pritzker -
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
Zora Neale Hurston -
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.
Galen Rowell -
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.
Ian MacKaye
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
Fernando Flores -
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.
Malcolm Gladwell -
We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
Lana Wachowski -
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.
Zara Phillips -
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.
Ted Naifeh -
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.
Major Owens
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I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.
J. D. Souther -
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.
Walter O'Brien -
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.
Jackie Robinson -
If I hear one more tailgate in the moonlight, Daisy Dukes song, I wanna throw up.
Zac Brown Band -
I only come up with things when I am talking to myself, which I do constantly. The sidewalk and the subway are the best places for this. I speak at full volume and then laugh at myself if I like what I just said.
Kate McKinnon -
Let's stop somebody from doing something!Everybody does too much.
A. P. Herbert
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I weep flowers, I weep song, I bleed.
Carole Maso -
I think... I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.
Neil Gaiman -
I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
George Meredith -
I wish that she had had a black loon because I don't think that Nina [Simone] did. I have always had - I've been very fortunate - a group of little old ladies that I love and who love me, and who turned and to whom I turn at different times.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. -
That most unfortunate war, which I deeply deplore.
Emperor Hirohito -
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
Epicurus