Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
Viktor Orban
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
Wanda Sykes
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Acting was something I had to do.
Nancy Marchand
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
Tara Lipinski
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I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.
Naguib Mahfouz
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I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
Jack Ma
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
Zadie Smith
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
Taylor Momsen
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I personally approve all the shoes that go into production, and I have a level of involvement with the factories that other people don't have.
Edgardo Osorio
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When I heard Flying Lotus, I was like, 'Wow, okay, everything can be off the grid.'
Flume
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Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
Adam Gopnik
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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
J. Paul Getty
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If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.
Sam Levenson
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I created my lane. No one can ever run my lane because it's mine. I'm the Michael Jackson of my lane. And you know, nobody was as great as Michael. I love Prince, but he's not Michael.
Young Jeezy
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A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
Frances Wright
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An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.
Salvatore Quasimodo
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My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.
Shania Twain
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But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.
George Eliot
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I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.
Leo Tolstoy
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You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.
Seneca the Younger