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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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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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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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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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That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.
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Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.
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I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.
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I don't play villains, I play very interesting people.
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I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.
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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.
