Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
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I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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My father had very little formal education.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.
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Remember, the choices we make today shape the people we become tomorrow.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
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I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.
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I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.
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It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
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One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot.
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I am married.
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Serious collectors and art experts, among the world's most educated, often cannot fathom the possibility of being rooked, and then once taken, cannot face the humiliation of admitting it.
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Hate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.
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I did feel from day one that I was a born performer.
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Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.
