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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I do believe we have voter fraud in America.
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In these xenophobic times, when politicians are stoking everyone's anxiety about threats from abroad, I would argue that engaging with the rest of the world is not only a luxury, in the way that travel is, but actually a moral responsibility.
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If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.
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Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
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C'mon, people, you can't show the player a really big bomb and not let them blow it up.
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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.
