Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.

Seneca the Younger

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• I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Trying
  • Inspired
  • Lyrics

• Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.

  

  Nas
  • You
  • Struggle
  • Appreciate

• I was a tomboy.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Tomboy

• There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Listening
  • Silence

• I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Support
  • Trust
  • Said

• Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Perfect

• Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.

  

  Edoardo Ponti
  • Emotional
  • Body
  • Athlete

• 'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Heart
  • Right
  • Ego

• My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Feel
  • Weird
  • Connection

• It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • People
  • Family
  • Enjoy

• The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • World
  • Exercise
  • Philanthropy

• You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Know
  • Change
  • Motorcycle

• I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.

  

  Kat Graham
  • World
  • Different
  • Own

• Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Game
  • Religious
  • Years

• Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • People
  • True
  • Change

• The record company doesn't know what to do with me, because I'm not a Lily Allen, but I'm not really an indie artist, either. All the best artists have been in the middle.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Me
  • Best
  • Artist

• Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Down
  • Wants
  • Toddler

• I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Life
  • Done
  • Think

• Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky.

  

  Peter Higgs
  • Work

• These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day.

  

  Steven Squyres
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Past

• I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?

  

  Carol Burnett

• In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Magic

• We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Death
  • Past
  • Wrong