Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I used to, in the summertime, spend so much money doing a lot of fun stuff. Now, I'm actually consciously trying to save so we can live how we want to live after basketball. I've even sold a few things.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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Rick Santorum has so much potential and so much eagerness to serve our country.
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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It's strong to be vulnerable. To be able to communicate with other women is one of the most powerful things.
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When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
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The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.
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Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people.
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I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
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I learned that coming out was crucial to self-esteem.
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From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation.
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The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.
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I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
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What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
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The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.
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It is not my duty as an historian to predict the future, only to observe and interpret the past. But its lesson is clear enough; we have lived too long out of contact with reality, and now the time has come to rebuild our lives.
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Looking back, I realize my favorite stories weren't in books, they were in comics. On top of being a history enthusiast, my father was also a comics fan, and he kept his stash in the top drawer of his dresser, in easy reach of a kid making a beeline to the bathroom.
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In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.
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There are going to be good days and bad days... and you have to learn to fight through that.
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Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
