Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I'm like a sight gag.
Adam Driver -
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
Walt Disney -
If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
Nawal El Saadawi -
I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
Ikue Mori -
There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
Dan Glickman
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I lived with a German family. I learned about schnitzel from Ritta Seiffer. When she cooked she'd get the oil really hot so that it sealed everything and in the middle was very juicy. That's the secret to a great schnitzel.
Navid Negahban -
Does 'Shooting Fish' have less artistic merit than a play like 'Angels In America,' which I did? Well, probably. But it's good for something.
Dan Futterman -
I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
Dan Aykroyd -
You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
Gail Collins -
People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.
Ines de La Fressange -
The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
A. N. Wilson
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I've had a job since I was 11. I had a paper route, I worked at a video store, I was a toy doll at FAO Schwartz when I was in high school. And I think that it's made me really disciplined when it came to pursuing acting, because I had no clue how to go about it.
Cara Buono -
A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
Garrison Keillor -
Liberation is not deliverance.
Victor Hugo -
I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.
Dan Jenkins -
I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.
Adam Michnik -
I think that something needs to be weird in order to have a real beauty.
Carine Roitfeld
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You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
Nobody has said to men, 'It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.'
Warren Farrell -
On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.
A. N. Wilson -
I am about to discuss the disease called 'sacred'. It is not, in my opinion, any more divine or more sacred that other diseases, but has a natural cause, and its supposed divine origin is due to men's inexperience, and to their wonder at its peculiar character.
Hippocrates -
I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do.
Sufjan Stevens -
... frugality makes a poor man rich.
Seneca the Younger