Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.
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I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.
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I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.
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The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.
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Successful entrepreneurs always give 100% of their efforts to everything they do.
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'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.
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The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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Sometimes I'm successful, and sometimes I'm not, but I don't mind going down trying.
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Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.
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I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order to be successful. And that machine is what is going to work for them - there's tons of examples of pop stars who need that machine.
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Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.
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I want to be successful, and I want to do good, but I also want to be myself.
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The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
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Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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In England, I met a couple who run a children's home. They were very kind and showed me many nice spots in England.
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I know it is unpopular. I know the timing is unpopular. I know the whole thing is unpopular. But I believe it is the right thing.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.
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Kids can handle a lot more than you think they can. It's when they get to be grown up that you have to start worrying.
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Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to develop the skills and discipline required to produce a coherent analysis, based on logic and evidence. The implications of having so many people so incapable of confronting opposing arguments with anything besides ad hominem responses reach far.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
