Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.Seneca the Younger
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
Tatjana Patitz -
Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
Eckhart Tolle -
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke -
Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
Adam Lamberg -
Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
Ted Sarandos -
People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
Manoj Bhargava
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
Calvin Trillin -
I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
Naomi Scott -
I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.
Jack Wild -
Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
Walter Kirn -
There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'
Gal Gadot
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
Salman Rushdie -
I love being in my 40s.
Laura Dern -
Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.
Paddy Ashdown -
That’s how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don’t bother hardly getting to know each other at all.
Orson Scott Card -
One is forced to remember how far from 'self-expression' great poems are - what a strange compromise between the demands of the self, the world, and Poetry they actually represent.
Randall Jarrell -
Unlearned men of books assume the care,As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
Edward Young
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While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.
Virginia Woolf -
Government conspiracy? They can't even deliver our mail and it's got our address on it and everything!
P. J. O'Rourke -
The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will.
Hermann Hesse -
Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.
Veerappa Moily -
The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.
Seneca the Younger