Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
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You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.
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The American political scientist Francis Fukuyama has argued that liberal democracies, with their political freedom and economic success, have three important pillars: a strong government, the rule of law, and democratic accountability. I would add a fourth: free markets.
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History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
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Girls always make our music go. They set the trends. It starts with the ladies.
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Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.
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Here in the hospital, I say,that is not my body, not my body.I am not here for the doctorsto read like a recipe.
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She does not know where any tale waits before it's told. (No more do I.) But forty thieves sounds good, so forty thieves it is. She prays she has bought another clutch of days. We save our lives in such unlikely ways.
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I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues.
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User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.
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There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but I've never had any talent for that. I just do things and hope for the best. Say yes, take a chance, and sometimes it's terrific and sometimes it's not.
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I don't believe there is any point in holding on to too many things in life.
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We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.
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With each step I take, I see that my ability to perform gets a little better. So until it starts getting worse, I'm going to keep moving forward.
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The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast.
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My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s.
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I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct.
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None of you ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.
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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
