Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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I love badminton. That's my sport!
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
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But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
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There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
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If you're clever enough and creative enough to get a good film made, then you should be clever enough and creative enough to find ways to get it out there, one being something like Jameson First Shot.
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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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All artists are equal when they are themselves.
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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.
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I've learned after doing a couple records that if it feels good and it's easy, then that's usually a good sign. And that feeling sorta went with us to Nashville - everything was just natural.
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I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.
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Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.
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The best performers in Europe are those who use their welfare states to help people adjust to change.
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I love talking about the challenges [Newark, NJ] has because of the way they are always brilliantly disguised as opportunities.. .the biggest global challenge that there is is a challenge of the spirit, a challenge of our vision, a challenge and a test of our ideals, of who we SAY we are GOING TO BE.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
