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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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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'Love has a language that transcends all languages, all barriers and all distance.'
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During the couple of years it took to write 'At The Bottom of Everything', I decided, on the sort of hopeful whim that occasionally overtakes me, to sign up for piano lessons.
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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My No. 1 responsibility when I'm not slaying zombies is being a parent.
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For many years, there has been only one place where I am in touch with my emotions fearlessly, and that's the stage. Being on stage fills my soul in many ways, almost completely. It's my vice.
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Well, all the plays that I was trying to write … were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
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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.
