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.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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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.
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I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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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.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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When I heard Flying Lotus, I was like, 'Wow, okay, everything can be off the grid.'
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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.
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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.
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If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.
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On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters.
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When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.
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Some breakfast cereals only come into their own as children's party treats: what are cornflakes and Coco Pops for, if not to clump together with melted chocolate and spoon into a cupcake holder?
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I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.
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It's a movie that bewilders some viewers and mesmerizes others. A man I met while we were exercising our dogs told me it was the greatest film he had ever seen, and one of my editors claims it's the closest any movie has ever come to photographing the inside of his mind.
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If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.
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Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
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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.
