Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
A. C. Benson -
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Paavo Nurmi -
I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
Pat Robertson -
I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
Ian Mckellen -
If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
Sam Worthington -
For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
Damian Lewis -
I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.
Candy Crowley -
I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
Laura Benanti -
I'm trying to focus on the 100 and 200 breaststroke now. There's no point concentrating on the 50 when it's not in the Olympics. I'm not going to quit the 50 but it's not my priority any more. I'll do it but as part of my bid for gold at the other distances.
Cameron van der Burgh -
Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
Manuel Puig -
We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.
Dan Pallotta
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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
Pablo Picasso -
Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
Patricia Ireland -
I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.
Ferran Adria -
One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
Kate Grenville -
I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I'm enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I've truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time.
Danica Patrick -
The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
Livy
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I believe the main solution referring to the nuclear issue is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani -
In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed.
Marvin Hagler -
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
Pablo Picasso -
I don't think it's a healthy thing in your personal life to go around with that never-sure attitude.
Matt Lauer -
Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years to late. Cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder, I'm an over forty victim of fate.
Jimmy Buffett -
As the world leads we follow.
Seneca the Younger