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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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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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 think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
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One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.
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If you're saying something that people don't want to hear or accept, a significant proportion of them will reply with hostility. Not because they know the facts, or because they have researched it themselves, but because they're so psychologically involved in believing good news that they will oppose it with a reflex.
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Leadership is found in the action to defeat that which would defeat you… You are made by the struggles you choose.
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You Americans, you treat the Third World in the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and then it's off to the fields.
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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.
