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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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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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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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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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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I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.
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My dad loved Scotland, so we would pile into his caravan and head for the Highlands, to Fort William and Loch Ness. It was such an adventure - my siblings and I were allowed to roam and explore the local beaches. We loved the freedom of those trips.
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Innovation is everyones responsibility, not just R&Ds.
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I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.
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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.
