Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
This is the difference between us Romans and the Etruscans: We believe that lightning is caused by clouds colliding, whereas they believe that clouds collide in order to create lightning. Since they attribute everything to gods, they are led to believe not that events have a meaning because they have happened, but that they happen in order to express a meaning.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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I wouldn't trade a thing. Even the troubles that I had. I have become the husband and mate to my wife that I have because of what I went through, including the bad times. I wouldn't trade that.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.'
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If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me.
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When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.
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I don't know if I'm a method actor.
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The rich man... is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.
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I still have to audition for most things.
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I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.
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I've said this before, and I know this raises questions in the minds of some evangelicals. I do not believe that my mother, who never formally embraced Christianity as far as I know ... I do not believe she went to hell.
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The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.
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This is the difference between us Romans and the Etruscans: We believe that lightning is caused by clouds colliding, whereas they believe that clouds collide in order to create lightning. Since they attribute everything to gods, they are led to believe not that events have a meaning because they have happened, but that they happen in order to express a meaning.
