Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
Quotes to Explore
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After 'The Sisters Brothers,' I tried to write a contemporary story dealing with an investment adviser in New York City who moves to Paris. I did all this research, but after about a year and any number of pages written, I was bored stiff.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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I care about writing music and playing my music.
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Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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'MMMBop' took about a year to actually get completed. The chorus idea had really been around for a long time, and then we built the song around it.
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This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.
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In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of 'jihad'.
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I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
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I love acting, but I want to explore other things.
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I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.
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I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.
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We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20.
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We want to nurture startups on our platform, just like we did in the old world.
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It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
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If we are to give the people of China complete self-government we must first solve the problem of livelihood for all, and give real freedom to the races within China. If the foundations of democracy are secure, then true equality can be achieved.
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Few males achieve any real freedom in their sexual relations even with their wives. Few males realise how badly inhibited they are on these matters.
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I find something funny when it lives on many levels - a level of self-deprecation, of knowledge and heightened reality.
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Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
