Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

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• Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

  

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• A woman's body is her body and what she wears or does not wear is her choice. Get over it and move on.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
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• When I look at my body, I'm like, 'I'm a lead of a TV show?' To have a man in the business say, 'Come along just as you are,' is really an incredible thing.

  

  Rachel Keller
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• Sometimes when I'm at my desk, I'll realize that I have contorted myself completely, and I haven't moved for hours, and that my legs have fallen asleep. I am elsewhere, not in my body, not in the room, not in my house.

  

  Dani Shapiro
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• I think you can feel good about yourself at any size and any shape. Nobody should be made to feel inferior because they have a certain body type.

  

  Zach Anner
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• We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.

  

  Larry Norman
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• I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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• I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It's not just a couple of catchy songs and filler, so I felt that I needed to capture the essence of the album.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
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• I couldn't breathe. I - I went into - literally, my kidneys stopped functioning. They stopped, you know, processing the fluid that was starting to build up in my body.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• I speak two languages, Body and English.

  

  Mae West
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• My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
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• I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
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• I'm not ready to be a woman yet, I'd like it if my body were more boyish. Maybe I'll like my curves when I'm older but right now they kind of make me squirm.

  

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• I do body conditioning, spinning and yoga. On the treadmill, I'll do intervals of running flat and then on incline. I'll do that for an hour.

  

  Fleur East
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• The body tends to treat elements in the same column of the periodic table as equivalents.

  

  Sam Kean
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• Nothing happens in any legislative body that's not purposeful.

  

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• Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.

  

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• The great challenge working on this show for me is wearing polyester all day long and having the worst haircut known to man at the top of my head and sitting under fluorescent lights. That is America, people. Polyester, bad haircuts, under fluorescent lights.

  

  Rainn Wilson
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• I have had enough of the sexist treatment of Sarah Palin... I call upon the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower who will wilt at any moment.

  

  Brown Campbell
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• When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

  

  Barry Lopez
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• I never personalize anything because I think that can be dangerous. For me, the best way is - this may sound pretentious - but it's to breathe the character and get into the psychology of it.

  

  Imogen Poots
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• There are good and bad movies, and long ones, and pretentious ones, and fun ones, and it's kind of healthy not just being able to switch off after ten minutes, but have patience.

  

  Susanne Bier
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• We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Body
  • Should
  • Ought