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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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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I was in 'Jacques Brel' Off-Broadway for many years, so I've always been a singing actress, but the songwriting was a complete surprise. I had never written a song in my life. We were on the road with 'Jacques Brel' doing the national tour, and I picked up a guitar one day and I wrote a song.
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We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians.
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There are moments when your mind is very vulnerable. You feel a lot of doubts.
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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
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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.
