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 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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You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.
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You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.
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I was from very poor people: 11 of us in a two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. I wanted the large houses, the cars, jets, and yacht.
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I feel like because I've done more gay characters, gay scenes, or gay projects than most straight actors, people see it as some sort of mission. It's more of a case-by-case basis, and just trying to capture figures that I love. I guess that a lot of the figures that I love were gay.
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But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.
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'I'm no preacher but I can tell you this-the lives that people lead are driving them crazy and their insanity comes out in the way they drive.'
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Everything in art is but a copy of nature.