Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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You know what's funny? There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'
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Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
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I have a really hard time finding good denim.
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The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
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My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.
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Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
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Living in the U.K., there is no way to know whether anyone in India likes my music, but I was surprised to see people singing along while I performed in Pune.
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Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.
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Sci-fi fans are awesome. They're very smart, they like to be involved, they like to ask questions. I've been asked questions I don't even know the answer to. I've never had any aggressive interactions. I've had lovely interactions.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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With all of the people in Cuba who I met - many of them hugely heroic figures - I found learning about their complexity and richness and contradictions just really fascinating, and it was fulfilling to be able to offer a different side to them, to be able to have some kind of unique takeaway from the official narrative.
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I think perfect happiness has everything to do with learning to be content with what I have.
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With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the universe' through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call 'stereotypical repetition.'
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What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians... All publication s masquerading under the name of ragtime are not the genuine article... That real ragtime of the higher class is rather difficult to play is a painful truth which most pianists have discovered. Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music... Joplin ragtime is destroyed by careless or imperfect rendering, and very often players lost the effect entirely by playing too fast.
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Over the last 15 years we've developed our brand into a global brand and we wanted our giving to follow suit.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
