Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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I have no desire to enter politics. Because I am not suited for that.
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We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.
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You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.
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No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
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The medical system in the United States is among the best in the world, if not the best. What if we were to make the United States a medical destination? That would bring a lot of people here because there are a lot of sick people around the world. If they can get U.S. treatment, they will take it, but now think about what that will do.
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I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.
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The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
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By burning nuclear waste as fuel, we believe we can power the United States cleanly for hundreds of years without ever touching new resources.
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And like I said, I appreciate my older brothers because they would not allow me to win. They made me learn to play with them, which I think is the most important thing that I learned.
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When people ask me exactly how much time I spend in each country, I always tell them I have no idea.
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I like soundtracks and I like film.
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I have met Mariah before and she's really cool and so funny. Everyone has been given the wrong impression of her, and maybe it is her doing. But you have to remember that celebrities are always in the spotlight and are sometimes forced to conduct themselves in a different way than they normally do. That's how it is in the business. I have met artists who are real divas, but Mariah Carey is not one of them. She is a very sweet person, and what nobody sees off camera is the real person she is on the inside.
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We are sure the upshot of her visit will be not only a narrowing of our positions on many international problems but also a new impulse to the development of our relations, ... Both sides are trying for exactly that.
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It will not be possible to rule out the supposition that the process of evolution may be guided by an intelligent design.
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I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.
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The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak; when you’re present in the current moment; when you’re resonating with the excitement of this thing that you’re experiencing; when you are fully alive.
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The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.
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To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
