Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.
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Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!
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I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.
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It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.
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Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.
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Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.
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The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Men, you may all do as you damn please, but I'm a-goin' home.
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This too I know-and wise it wereIf each could know the same-That every prison that men buildIs built with bricks of shame,And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.
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Some men like Jack and some like JillI'm glad I like them both but stillI wonder if this freewheelingReally is an enlightened thing,Or is its greater scope a signOf deviance from some party line?In the strict ranks of Gay and StraightWhat is my status: Stray? Or Great?
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The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got.
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It's no fish ye're buying, it's men's lives.
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You never tried facing the sting Walking all in circles, take it all in stride Faces are not what they seem, I always dream lost in the tide
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I could almost smell her fear... Why did it bother me so much? Because she and I were the only women here, and we had to be better than the men. Braver, quicker, whatever. It was a rule for playing with the big boys.
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Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.
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Now you are on the Buddhist way. Keep up your meditation, as there is no instant illumination. The mind moves slowly into this. Do not become attached to your method. When, in the course of your meditation, your consciousness will have expanded and been transformed, you will then recognize that all the ways are valid ways.
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No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
