Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.
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I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
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T.V.'s weird because it's both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.
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It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.
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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
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Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.
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Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.
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We have Sunday morning breakfast before church. I don't do the dishes, but I do cook. I'm the griller.
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It's not an easy course. It's not designed to be. We're not here to get you in touch with your inner child.
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If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world.
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People have said I belong in a rubber room because I look for wrecks, and when I find them, I just do a survey. I don't look for treasure or artifacts.
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I had a nightmare about being on a cruise ship and the ship going down. It was an arduous process of the ship going down and we knew it was going down. There was everyone I know and love on the ship.
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To view any individual as being independent of relationality is like viewing a point outside of a line, a line outside of a figure, a figure outside of a body.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
