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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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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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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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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Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it imposes. The impossibility of pausing in poetry as long as may be needed to make sense clear causes many a set of words actually deficient in linguistic workmanship to pass for an eloquent brevity.
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My mother was very proud of being Irish and being a Gunnigan in a straightforward way.
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I'm real happy. I've been lucky in love, and I've got a wonderful kid now, and things have been going well.
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Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum, were black with them.
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If you want to invest in us, we believe customer number one, employee number two, shareholder number three. If they don't want to buy that, that's fine. If they regret, they can sell us.
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Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
