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Epictetus Quotes

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: greek
Birth: 50 - 138

Topics

Freedom Desire Enjoyment Controlling

Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.

Tell Fiction Location Exist Because

Things are so much global and Americanised.

Things Global Much

3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.

Beginning Baby Movies More Steps

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

Jeanette Winterson

Work Time Over Interest Us Still

Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.

Great Me Three Royal Air Stuff

Stories mimic life like certain insects mimic leaves and twigs.

Life Insects Like Stories Certain

We are not only what we read. We are how we read.

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.

Mother Master Concert Absurdity Were

Now, we used to think the brain was like a computer. But now, we realize that's not true. There's no programming of the brain. There's no Windows. And we think the brain is more like a large corporation. Because think of the unconscious mind. In a corporation, you have subdivisions which operate independently of the main office.

Mind Brain Think You Windows True

I'm not going to give President Bush any advice. He knows. He knows what I think.

Jose Maria Aznar

Think Advice President Going Give

Television is blue-collar work. You clock in in the morning; you work 12, 13 hours - sometimes 18 hours if you're doing 'Orphan Black.'

Work Morning Black Doing You Clock

When you're a kid, you're just not equipped to deal with some of the stuff that life brings you. It's why you have parents. And then, when you don't, there better be somebody who fills in that gap, or you're going to be rudderless for a while.

Life Parents Better You Why Kid

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