Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.

Seneca the Younger

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• Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Together
  • Dark
  • Chocolate

• In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Death
  • Terrorism
  • Sickness

• I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Always
  • Majority

• I'm a fan of Bjork, a fan of Premier, you know, those are the first two names that come to my mind. You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Experience

• The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Real
  • Attention
  • Problem

• Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Beautiful
  • Science
  • Humanity

• Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.

  

  Oscar De La Hoya
  • World
  • Forget
  • Boxing

• My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • World
  • Experience
  • Interesting

• I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Good
  • Live
  • Home

• Here's the thing: 'The Hurt Locker' was an amazing, important film. But did I enjoy it? Of course not. It was very tough to watch and, while gripping, not exactly what you'd call a happy place.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Important
  • Happy
  • Amazing

• Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Something
  • Feminist
  • Jewish

• What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Power
  • Solitude
  • Destroy

• When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas.

  

  M. Ward
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• Cumulative errors depend largely on the big surprises, the big opportunities. Not only do economic, financial, and political predictors miss them, but they are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients - and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Political
  • Financial

• It's those who lie outside ordinary experience who have the most to teach us.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Experience

• O ye men, whoever amongst you worshipped Muhammad, let him know that Muhammad is dead, and whoever amongst you worshipped Allah, let him know that Allah is Living, there is no death for Him.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Men
  • Death

• He seems to think that posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Horse

• I was fortunate to have had a lively, happy childhood, but somewhere along the way I convinced myself I wasn't wanted anywhere or by anyone if I wasn't thin.

  

  Lucy Davis
  • Happy
  • Childhood

• I believe in limitations. I think the worst art ever made - in my opinion, because it's all so subjective - is where the artist had complete freedom.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Freedom

• It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are; but howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Opinion

• I shot for French and British Vogue. The British Vogue one featured clothes by Chloe and was shot at Highgate and the John Soane Museum. It came out much better in my opinion. I only did one day and was working with my own make-up and hair people and a model who I've known for years.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • People
  • Up
  • Opinion

• The first step in good reporting is good snooping.

  

  Matt Drudge
  • Good

• I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served me well in terms of understanding plot, in terms of watching actors develop characters.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Character
  • Soul
  • Understanding

• Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Opinion
  • Divided