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.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Barbara Kruger
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Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
Hans Hofmann
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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.
M.I.A.
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We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.
Rand Paul
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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.
Inga Muscio
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The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
Saint Patrick
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
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Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.
Taylor Swift
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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.
Pamela Meyer
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Soon I'll find the right words, they'll be very simple.
Jack Kerouac
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Give a kind word (with a kindly thought behind the word) - you will be kind and receive kind words.
W. Clement Stone
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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?
Sarah McLachlan
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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.
Andrei Tarkovsky
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They should rule who are able to rule best.
Aristotle
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Three words for those who want to put the Christ back in Christmas: Jingle Bell Rock.
Christopher Hitchens
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Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.
Dorothy Day
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
Bodhidharma
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There is something about the sameness people like. And what I've tried to do with all the zombie films is purposely make them different. That may be part of why it takes so long for people to see what it's intended to be.
George A. Romero
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What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
John Howe
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It is a hard thing when one has shot sixty-five lions or more, as I have in the course of my life, that the sixty-sixth should chew your leg like a quid of tobacco. It breaks the routine of the thing, and putting other considerations aside, I am an orderly man and don't like that. This is by the way.
H. Rider Haggard
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I don't wanna be that kind of guy that just sits there and announces things.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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Her arms quiver from holding the bowl. She must truly love him to hold that bowl for so very long. There must be something isdeof him that is worthy of that kindness
Carrie Jones
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
Seneca the Younger