Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
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I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor.
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And all for love, and nothing for reward.
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After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.
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I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.
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Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.
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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.
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At that stage my heart ruled my head'.
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Fame or perceived success - it all comes from groupthink.
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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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If your intentions are pure, if you apply your craft with a view to observe humanity and, ultimately, God himself, very often something powerful will surface.
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What I've found is there is no barometer that allows you to chart when you're oversaturating a desire. You're left really trying to respond on a gut level, because by the time you might do research, it's already too late. There's also a healthy tension between what are very sound business objectives and a very amorphous desire to preserve what's special.
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My desire to compete has grown with each level of competition and is what still excites me today. I am blessed to have gone from the playground to winning a college national championship to representing my country and winning two Olympic gold medals.
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Lack of desire is the greatest riches.
