Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
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Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.
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I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
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Nature hates calculators.
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So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask, 'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'
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News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.
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There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.
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If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.
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I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.
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I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to give birth.
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I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.
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You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart.
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My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
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I can't wait to get out there. Every game could be an instant classic.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
