Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.
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Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
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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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The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.
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People think that, when you're doing comedy, nothing means anything, that people run around and act crazy. It's quite the opposite. The stakes are life-and-death.
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My dance teacher will show me pictures of girls who are rhythmic gymnasts, and they are super skinny. But I don't want to be too skinny. I think that looks a little gross when you are dancing. You don't want to be a scrawny, bony thing.
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I listen to older music like AC/DC.
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I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.
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Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.
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In a situation where it's the child or the adult, I'm going with the child.
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We're probably close to reaching 2,000 shows, which is more than Julia Child and Jacques Pepin together.
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
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I will not be collateral damage in a presidential campaign, nor will I be a woman bullied by Hillary Clinton.
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Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.
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Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
