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.
Seneca the Younger
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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.
Harmony Korine
'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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.
Walter Cronkite
I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring.
Zooey Deschanel
Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
M. Stanton Evans
If someone asked me about the most effective way to take political action, I would not counsel them to do that first. … What I will say is that when things like that happen, I’m not going to go back in retrospect and tell those people that they were wrong. The way people cry out is always going to be diverse.
Eugene Puryear
When I went through some racism through my early days and I went back and told Mum... she said, 'Don't worry about that, they're just ignorant.'
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
SoundCloud took a community-first approach to building its business, prioritizing finding artists to post on its service over making deals with music labels to license their music, the approach taken by Spotify.
Jenna Wortham
I was thinking about framing, and how so much of what we think about our lives and our personal histories revolves around how we frame it. The lens we see it through, or the way we tell our own stories. We mythologize ourselves. So I was thinking about Persephone's story, and how different it would be if you told it only from the perspective of Hades. Same story, but it would probably be unrecognizable. Demeter's would be about loss and devastation. Hades's would be about love.
Kiersten White
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.
Seneca the Younger
