Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
Natalia Tena -
In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
Rachel Weisz -
Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
Usain Bolt -
Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.
Nancy Kress -
A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
Laura Anne Gilman -
You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
Quincy Jones
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
Paige VanZant -
We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.
Tammy Duckworth -
The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.
Orhan Pamuk -
Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
Maggie Grace -
Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
Najib Razak
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I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York Review of Books,' and I was never part of the Stravinsky 'inner circle.'
Samuel Barber -
Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.
I. F. Stone -
Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
Edward Gibbon -
It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
Lawrence Durrell -
The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.
Aldous Huxley -
I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long.
Bobby Bowden
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I don't trust people who are likable.
Claire Messud -
If you allow spirit to have dominion in your heart you will have dominion in your life. That changes thinking. That IS the miracle. That I'm not just a child of the body, I'm a child of the universe and in the universe I am programmed for greatness, and the fact that I don't have money in my bank account now doesn't mean I'm any less programmed for greatness. I was programmed for greatness just like the acorn is programmed to be an oak tree.
Marianne Williamson -
We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants.
Baba Kalyani -
I don't know how many girls have felt support through my persona. I'm a girl power. So many girls tell me I'm a girl power, and yes, I am.
Qandeel Baloch -
War is the health of the State and it is during war that one best understands the nature of that institution.
Randolph Bourne -
The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
Seneca the Younger