Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
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If I'm not doing anything, I get really antsy and bored.
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I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.
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I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
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We have to invest in developing Villa Park, allowing us to generate our own revenue streams. At the same time, of course, there's a balance between growing long-term and getting the instant results we all crave as fans.
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Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.
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Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.
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The fans make the person a star.
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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
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If you're in a Gay Mafia and you get whacked, is that good or bad? gay voice Say hello to my little friend.
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'They follow the creed of the Bright: that which disturbs the order of society must be eliminated, regardless of whether it caused the disturbance.' She rolled her eyes. 'You’d think they’d get tired of parroting Itempas and start thinking for themselves after two thousand years.'
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The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art.
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Be the day short or be the day long, at last it weareth to evening song.
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No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.
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People were soon talking only of my bons mots, and they esteemed my wit so highly that the clergy was forced to publish a decree that forbade anyone to believe I was capable of reason, and it expressly commanded everyone of all ranks to believe - no matter how intelligently I might act - that I was guided by instinct.
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I'm sure you have some cosmic rationale, but here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.
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The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole.
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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.
