Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
Tamsin Greig -
Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
Victoria Osteen -
I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
Dan Gilbert -
Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!
Kate Ashfield -
I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
Randy Pausch -
Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
Cameron Mathison
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
Sadie Jones -
If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
J. K. Simmons -
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
Abraham Verghese -
If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
Carlos Slim -
I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.
Lana Wood
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
Beatrice Dalle -
People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.
Hansika Motwani -
I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.
Mackenzie Crook -
It should not be the government running the economy.
Quico Canseco -
I don't look too far ahead.
Xander Berkeley -
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
Fran Lebowitz
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If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure it all out again.
Penn Jillette -
The Donald Trump phenomenon in the U.S. is mirrored completely by the Brexit phenomenon in the U.K. It's very similar forces. And what is interesting to me is there are two different groups that come together, who don't really agree with each other, but have come together in unity against, if you like, what is perceived as the status quo, or - and certainly what is a more center-right or center-left type of politics.
Tony Blair -
'Spinal Tap' is interesting because it created a genre of film and ended it - all in one motion. If you do a mockumentary, you are always going to be compared with that film, and you are never going to be as funny.
Jay Chandrasekhar -
If I existed 200 years ago, all the other farmers in my community would be like, 'That guy is worthless! He's sitting on a rock, jumping up like a frog, coming up with weird concepts and ideas, making faces, and combing his hair into a giant pastry.' It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.
Conan O'Brien -
I was a club kid. I was on the cover of 'New York' magazine and discovered like that.
Vanessa Ferlito -
The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.
Seneca the Younger