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.Seneca the Younger
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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.
Nathan Myhrvold -
It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
Gautam Gambhir -
Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
Maggie Grace -
I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
Earl Nightingale -
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.
Patrick Ness
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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.
J. K. Simmons -
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.
Kat Dennings -
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.
Federico Fellini -
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.
Caitlin Fitzgerald -
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.
Orville Redenbacher -
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.
Ma Jian
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As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.
Walter Dean Myers -
It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
Walter Lippmann -
Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.
Taylor Swift -
Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.
Jack Kelley -
We have Sunday morning breakfast before church. I don't do the dishes, but I do cook. I'm the griller.
Vance McAllister -
I'm about being honest and knowing that people are watching, and they want to know that I'm asking questions that they want the answers to.
Tamron Hall
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I remember seeing Amy Sedaris in a stint where she played somebody's alcoholic mother in one scene and in the next she was Ross Perot. I remember thinking she was so awesome.
Stephnie Weir -
When you make a bad pitch and the hitter puts it out of the park and you cost your team the game, it's a real test of your maturity to be able to stand in front of your locker fifteen minutes later and admit it to the world. How many people in other professions would be willing to have their job performances evaluated that way, in front of millions, every afternoon at five o'clock.
Bob Feller -
A really good comedy, I think, is played as if it was real, and it's the circumstances that make it amusing. And I think that the - the inverse or the reverse is true for drama.
Kenneth Lonergan -
Your success can't be determined by your surname but only by your work.
Arjun Kapoor -
Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have rolled past and when the blazing light of truth is focused on this marvelous age in which we live - men and women will know and children will be taught that we have a finer land, a better people, a more noble civilization - because these humble children of God were willing to suffer for righteousness' sake.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
Seneca the Younger