Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
Quotes to Explore
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.
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I have plenty of investments that I wish I'd never made. But the model is to lose money on a lot of investments and then make 1,000X or 10,000X on an investment.
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The thing I like to do most is shop.
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I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.
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Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.
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I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.
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I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.
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I love Chanel.
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One is forced to remember how far from 'self-expression' great poems are - what a strange compromise between the demands of the self, the world, and Poetry they actually represent.
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Me, as myself, I don't think I'm particularly funny. But I've noticed that people in my life always have found me amusing. Which, when I was little, really bothered me.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.
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National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.
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The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.
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John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
