Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they may be taken from us by ill luck or by violence; but a kindness lasts even after the loss of that by means of which it was bestowed; for it is a good deed, which no violence can undo.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.
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The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
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A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
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I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country.
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I don't want to be away from wrestling even a little.
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You always have to think in a new modern way, and you always have to push yourself in fashion because it's a big treadmill. You can't really get off it. You just have to move a little faster.
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I think humans are fascinating in general. We're so weird. We do so many quirky things, and we don't even know it. There's just so many layers upon layers of nuances in everything we do, and the most fun part as an actor is trying to get into all those nuances, whether they're conscious or unconscious.
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I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.
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We must make the government accept that at a time when we are expected to look ahead, we cannot afford to start discriminating against our own people in the name of 'ethos.'
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But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.
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With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
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Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
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Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.
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I just choose the scripts I want to work on. I don't know why. It's not something conscious or that I'm doing on purpose.
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You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live
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I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.
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The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they may be taken from us by ill luck or by violence; but a kindness lasts even after the loss of that by means of which it was bestowed; for it is a good deed, which no violence can undo.
