Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
Rachel Weisz -
It's healthy to have interests besides books.
Patrick deWitt -
I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
Babe Ruth -
The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.
Barbara Amiel -
I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.
Jack Whitehall -
There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.
Hack Wilson
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Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.
Kate Christensen -
To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.
Magic Johnson -
I love acting, but I want to explore other things.
Hank Azaria -
Who was that fatman buried in your place? Just another imitator, plastic surgeons did his face.
Loudon Wainwright III -
Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.
Barnett Newman
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We were told we should not pay any attention to John Roberts views and religion and now we are told that opinions and religion do matter. I believe there is a degree of sexism here. . .and ivy league prejudice going on here.
Cokie Roberts -
Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.
D. H. Lawrence -
The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total result is not "the Word of God" in the sense that every passage in itself, gives impeccable science or history. It carries the Word of God.
C. S. Lewis -
Sexual fidelity is more important in a homosexual relationship than in any other. In other relationships there are a variety of ties. But here, fidelity is the only bond.
W. H. Auden -
Nichelle Nichols had decided leave the original Star Trek series after the first season. Fed up with racist harassment and limitation, culminating with her learning that studio executives were withholding her fan mail, she submitted her resignation. She withdrew it when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. convinced her that her role was too important a cultural breakthrough to leave.
Grace Dell Nichols -
I met too frankly preposterous, if it weren't for their banal evil, politicians and pastors who told knowing lies about the evils of homosexuality in order to attract bigger flocks to their churches and more votes and power to their corrupt councils. LGBT people seem to be being scapegoated more and more just as at the same time in more enlightened countries more and more freedom to express themselves, marry, be given official intersex status and so on is offered.
Stephen Fry
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Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.
Epictetus -
Will you go to His feet and place yourself entirely at His disposal?
William Booth -
I think as long as you're not being malicious and you're not hurting people then you should not be ashamed of what you do.
Lily Allen -
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
Seneca the Younger