Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
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My worry about this exclusive focus on Trump - the personality and how all of this is so unprecedented - is that then the solution seems to be, 'Well, we'll just get rid of Trump.'
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Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
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I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.
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I'm a huge fan of e-books, but the more I buy and download, the more I worry that someone could just take them all away from me.
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The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.
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My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.
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When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.
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The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.
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The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.
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When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.
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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
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What I do like about Donald Trump is that he's not bought by the lobbyists. He put up his own money, funded his own campaign. That means he's nobody's puppet.
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Indies are always an extra challenge. The time is shorter because you have less money to spend and fewer days to shoot.
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Hiking is a great passion of mine, and I find myself picking up empty bottles.
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I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where you're going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying.
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It is disconcerting to sit with your parent and find you're turning over your future to your government, which can't manage their money.
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I've been recording forever. I'm a watcher. I'm a stalker. I love everything about people. It's always been a passion for me to observe.
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You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.
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For my money, all theatre should be free.
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I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life.
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I've loved music. It was my first everything, but fashion and clothes is just the next step.
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I love Sly Stone and James Brown and Stevie Wonder, and I want my music to reflect some of that.
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Drawing attention to myself has never been a goal.
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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
