Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.
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Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
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When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.
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In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
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We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.
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Ancient, woman-centered words and beliefs never, like, fall off the planet. Having long done taken on a life of their own, they - like womankind - evolve, and survive. Chameleon style.
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The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.
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For the liespotter who knows how to listen well, the random words, sounds, and phrases in a person's speech are never as random as they seem. They offer a clear sightline into the liar's psyche.
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Soon I'll find the right words, they'll be very simple.
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Give a kind word (with a kindly thought behind the word) - you will be kind and receive kind words.
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In the desert of my dreams I saw you there;And I'm walking towards the water steaming body cold and bare.But your words cut loose the fire and you left my soul to bleed.And the pain that's in your truth's deceiving me, has got me scared.Oh why?
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The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute is only attainable through faith and in the creative act.
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They should rule who are able to rule best.
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Three words for those who want to put the Christ back in Christmas: Jingle Bell Rock.
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Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.
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I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear. The wrongs of the wordless weak. And I am my brothers keeper, And I will fight his fights; And speak the words for beast and bird. Till the world shall set things right.
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Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.
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I was clear about the fact that my first film should be 'big,' since it's the start of your whole career graph.
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One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.
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In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
