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.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.
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To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.
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Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.
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I love acting, but I want to explore other things.
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Who was that fatman buried in your place? Just another imitator, plastic surgeons did his face.
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Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.
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Laundry's easier when you live alone. Fifteen minutes before a date, put 'em on, dry 'em with a hair blower.
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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.
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Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
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Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.
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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.
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You may charge me with murder--or want of sense-- (We are all of us weak at times): But the slightest approach to a false pretence Was never among my crimes!
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A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt.
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I have a feeling that the kids are slowly returning to the roots, with this new Metal trend. I can really feel there are a lot of exciting young bands doing kinds of underground Metal, which of course is a lot more dirty than the stuff that we do, but I like it all the same.
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When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
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The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
