Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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I don't think about people watching me on TV. I think it would stress me out.
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We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
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Every few years, the feds and the courts change direction or fail to answer important questions. And every day, the Internet becomes more of a platform for lousy ads, for increasing the power of a few rich companies, and for intrusive tracking. It's too important to leave unprotected.
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I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.
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Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.
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There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?
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Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick.
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The more physical the activity, the less the difficulties will be. The more the activity becomes intellectual and turns into motives which exercise a determining influence on the commander's will, the more the difficulties will increase.
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I simply asked him if he was making any money. Is that a criticism?
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With workout classes, I always want to know that I can improve with each class I take. But I don't think I'll ever master the art of peddling quickly with little resistance, at least not without feeling like I'm going to fly off the bike.
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To be honest, I don't know how comedy works.
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I love to walk into places and have what I think is, like, the prettiest, smartest wife in town. I kind of enjoy that.
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I realized that I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life. It's a trip more wonderful than I could have imagined.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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My advice after thirty years in the business is sign with an agency of reasonable size.
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I never learned management. I never went to business school. I'm an artist. I happened to have really clear ideas of what I thought my business should be.
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I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.