Epictetus Quotes

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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I worked in theater my whole life. My mom was a drama teacher at my middle school. In high school, I was Drama Club President every year, and then I auditioned for conservatory acting programs.

Jenn Proske

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I look a lot like my father when he was my age.

Troy Garity

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Some people will humiliate themselves or their families just to be on television.

Steve Schirripa

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I won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in 1980.

Tracy Austin

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Every Republican is on record as saying Obamacare is unacceptable, intolerable, and they're gonna do everything they could to keep it from happening. But, at the moment of truth, they're not.

Rush Limbaugh

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I never went shopping. That wasn't my thing. I grew up horseback riding. That was my passion. I didn't start shopping until about 16 or 17, when I could drive myself to stores and explore on my own.

Mary-Kate Olsen

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You cannot ask somebody to be creative in 15 minutes and really think about a problem. You might have a quick idea, but to be in deep thought about a problem and really consider a problem carefully, you need long stretches of uninterrupted time.

Jason Fried

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The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

Doug Larson

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I was in 'Christmas with the Crawfords' with Joey Arias. I did that for six years, so I have a holiday show mentality a little bit.

Chris March

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I just keep praying for Joan to get her power back. To resolve her problems and rise to the top. To fight back!

Christina Hendricks

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The military has been determined to control the images of war since Vietnam. They're convinced that they lost the war because of loss of political support back home, because people saw what was going on.

Bob Simon

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One example that has hurt me is that of Aung San Suu Kyi. I admire her a lot, but her unwillingness to protect the Rohingiya Muslims shows how intolerance has seeped into politics and the level at which it has seeped. It immobilises politicians.

Asma Jahangir

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