Epicharmus of Kos Quotes
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I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.
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I'm the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn't compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly, but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot and not at this spot. Only my hand can say that.
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I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
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All writers, in all viewpoints, must choose which information and scenes will be presented, and in which order. In that sense, the author is always represented as a point of view in a work of fiction. His hand can always be detected by the discerning.
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What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.
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Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
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Successful entrepreneurs always give 100% of their efforts to everything they do.
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.
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We have morons representing us. People who go up and vote for a bill that they have never read - I mean, are we crazy? Are we insane to hand over our government to those kinds of people?
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I can count my friends on one hand.
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Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
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I keep saying I'm going to cut back on styling, but it's hard to give up.
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The historical importance of a composer does not always go hand in hand with the quality of their work.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
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We don't find it tough to sell gold; people love to buy jewelry. The only way to make your wife, sister or lover happy is to give them something that they love.
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Our 'realities' are make-believe - whatever we make ourselves believe, we experience.
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You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
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We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.
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I've always said this and finally I had a chance to demonstrate it: The moderator should be seen little and heard even less. It is up to the candidates to ask the follow-up questions and challenge one another.
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The hand washes the hand: give something and you may get something.
