Marcus Aurelius Quotes
But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.
Quotes to Explore
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.
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Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.
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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.
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I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!
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I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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I'd loved to wear jeans and t-shirts, but everybody was in the peace movement back then. And that was my ploy. I had to be careful not to say things like 'I like meat.' Actually I just wanted to drink beer and to screw.
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I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.
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When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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I like observing intelligent people who have expertise in areas I'm mostly ignorant about.
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Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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We shall act with good intentions, but at times we will be wrong. When we are, let us admit it and try to right the situation.
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When you turn on the TV, you hear bad stuff, all the time.
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But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.
