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 -
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 -
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
Salman Rushdie
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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 -
Colour-blindness always extends to the complementary colours. Those who are red blind are also green blind; those who are blind to blue have no consciousness of yellow. This law holds good for all mental phenomena; it is a fundamental condition of consciousness.
Otto Weininger -
In the green water, clear and warm, Susanna lay. She searched The touch of springs, And found Concealed imaginings. She sighed, For so much melody.
Wallace Stevens -
Alas! for him whose youthful fireIs vowed and wasted on the lyre,-Alas! for him who shall essay,The laurel's long and dreary way!Mocking will greet, neglect will chillHis spirit's gush, his bosom's thrill;And, worst of all, that heartless praiseEchoed from what another says.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon -
Look at everything that exists, and observe that it is already in dissolution and change, and as it were putrefaction or dispersion, or that everything is so constituted in nature as to die.
Marcus Aurelius
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I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know.
James Earl Jones -
Life is what you make it... and nowhere close to making mine the best it can be.
Charlize Theron -
Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.
Roy Blount, Jr. -
You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.
Peter Greenaway -
The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.
Seneca the Younger