Epicharmus of Kos Quotes
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
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First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
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When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.
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For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.
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Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
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Product-wise, I use a morning and night cleanser. I'm really not a brand person.
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Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
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Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
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My publishers are wonderful because they have let me write what I wanted to. They're wise enough to know that, with any author who's not simply writing formulas - who's trying to create something new - pressuring them to do something for market purposes almost always backfires. I can't imagine working under those circumstances, actually.
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A couple of weeks before the 1992 Houston Open, I was probably as low as I could get confidence-wise. I didn't think I was going to go any further, and then, out of nowhere, I won that week. That kind of got me going.
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The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
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I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well - obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well.
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I try to frighten my very young colleagues into studying and understanding their voices before they attempt things that are beyond them. It's wise to take gymnastics and swimming to strengthen the body, because people don't realise what an athletic undertaking singing actually is.
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Collecting shoes is my biggest hobby. I've got a couple hundred pairs of Nikes and Jordans. I got a lot of hats, too. I like to play basketball, but nothing competition wise.
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What the Internet has done is made it easier to stay in touch with people, and social networking has helped me career-wise by helping me keep in touch with my fans.
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Hamp would ask me about tempos in the band: 'Jacquet,' he'd say, 'knock off that tempo.' A lot of jazz musicians didn't prefer to play for dancers, which was their loss, really. But good jazz has always had that dance feel.
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I'm so much like Luke Skywalker I guess I always will be.
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The wise man must be wise before, not after, the event.
