Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.
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I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
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History shows fans want consolidation; you see it across the web every place. The big players are people like Google, Amazon, eBay, Facebook.
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I'm very serious about acting.
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You know, you have to put bread on the table. So you thank God you got the job.
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Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
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I want to be in New York. It's the place to be.
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It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, 'What should I write at the age of sixty-four,' but never, 'What should I write in 1940.'
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If the assembled company rags you for a failing, you can usually play up to it for comic effect: it's the failing they don't mention that you have to watch out for.
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
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People say I am the king of painful shoes.
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Usually, when a young girl is pregnant, she drops out of school and concentrates on being a mother. I thought that's what I had to do, but my counselors told me there was no way they would let me drop out. I had too much promise.
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Ninety per cent of my family are hairdressers, and the other 10% are construction workers.
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Nobody is thinking they're going to come out here and put a team here and become a multimillionaire. I don't know anybody that comes into the NFL like that.
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Manifesting takes place from Spirit. It doesn't take place from form, from the physical world. You've got to know that what you want to manifest will occur.
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I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.
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I have left all my business and all my husbands; I have taken with me only fair weather and my children, which is as much as I want.
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Do not fear for me, for I was born only once and i shall die only once.
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Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.
