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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'It's something that you dream about, but Milli Vanilli got a Grammy. So it's hard to decide whether you're happy or not.'
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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Entrepreneurs always begin the journey believing that they have the next big idea. They dream of the fame and fortune that awaits them if only they had the funding to pursue it. But the reality is that as the product is built and shared with customers, flaws in their concept are discovered that - if not overcome - will kill the business.
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Good fortune almost always makes some change in a man's behavior - in his manner of speaking and acting. It is a great weakness to want to bedeck oneself in qualities which are not his own. If he esteemed virtue above all other things, neither the favors of fortune nor the advantages of position would change a man's face or heart.
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Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.
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All, all of a piece throughout:Thy chase had a beast in view;Thy wars brought nothing about;Thy lovers were all untrue.'Tis well an old age is out,And time to begin a new.
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If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.
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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.
