Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
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I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.
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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
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America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.
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That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.
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Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.
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I don't want to go about offending people; that's not my plan.
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Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.
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New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.
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Well, as I said, you know the issue of Greek debt, they've grasped the principle of debt reduction. I think most people would argue that probably more needs to be done on that front, and they've just begun to take the first steps to accepting that there's going to have to be much closer economic integration in Europe.
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Under pressure from a growing movement of people who want their money out of fossil fuels, universities, pension investors and foundations are looking to exclude coal, oil and gas stocks from their portfolios.
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Apart from being celebrities, there's a huge amount of respect associated with being cricketers and a certain amount of reverence and honour associated with representing India. In people's eyes, apart from other celebrities in India, I think for sportsmen in India there's a certain amount of regard.
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It's a privilege to be able to be involved with people as talented as the people I've had the luck to work with, and it's just been a great experience for me, and I'm glad that so many of the films I've had the luck to do were films that could be enjoyed by families together.
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Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing.
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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
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I allowed Rick Santorum to express views and ideas that the American people never would have had expressed.
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Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: 'Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?' If you don't ask those questions, your governance will not be good.
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My first instrument is piano, I play some piano and guitar. So my solo music is more like real singer/songwriter type stuff.
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Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage...
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I think, with 'Pride,' I always knew that was something amazing because of the people who were in it and the story and the way it was written and who was directing. Anyone in that cast knew it was special.
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I've missed a lot of trains in my life, and another one always comes.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
