Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.
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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.
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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
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If you are ready to put a product or service on the market, look at that product or service and see how you can test it inexpensively. Keep in mind, you'll only need one; you don't need 1,000 to get the answer.
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We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.
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Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.
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This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.
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There have been many great performers, but only four great stylists-Al Jolson, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
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I'm so grateful this day has ended well.
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Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.
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Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
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Hegelism is like a mental disease-you cannot know what it is until you get it, and then you can't know because you've got it.
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I think at a certain age I became conscious of the power of words. And it was fairly late. I was kind of a goofball - but I was always subconsciously thinking about issues.
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I think it’s important to have a good hard failure when you're young. I learned a lot out of that. Because it makes you kind of aware of what can happen to you. Because of it I’ve never had any fear in my whole life when we’ve been near collapse and all of that. I’ve never been afraid. I’ve never had the feeling I couldn’t walk out and get a job doing something.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases.
