Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

Seneca the Younger

• Life
• Player
• Chess
• Affair
• Emptiness
• Pot
• Manifest

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  • Music
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• I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.

  

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• Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.

  

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• Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!

  

  Wally Schirra
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• Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Same
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• Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.

  

  Vincent Canby
  • Good
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• Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.

  

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• What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • You
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• Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.

  

  Edmund White
  • Me
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• When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Best
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• I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the hallways, practically hugging the wall, dragging my head against it like I was crazy.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Time
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• It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.

  

  Patrick Lussier
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Present

• With scientific advances, Congress must now make changes to reflect new therapeutic options.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • New
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  • Congress

• There's almost too much venture capital in India - there are issues with seed capital, but for venture capital, there's a lot money chasing deals here.

  

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  • Money
  • Too Much
  • Seed

• The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.

  

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  • Issues
  • Vote
  • Only

• My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
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• If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.

  

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  • Work
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• There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing.

  

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  • You
  • Place
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• Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
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  • Wish

• I can't sit still for long and need creative outlets and think you should try different things. I mean, if you're a musician all of your life, you gotta try different things. I really believe you can have it all.

  

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  • Life
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• I've never met a size zero person. Is Paris Hilton a size zero? I've met her. She looked very thin, but she looked very healthy. She had beautiful skin.

  

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  • She
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  • Paris

• In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. It's nauseating, programme after programme.

  

  Ken Stott
  • Reality

• In the 1970s, as historians became enchanted with microhistories, economists were expanding the reach of their discipline. Nations, states and cities began to plan for the future by consulting with economists whose prognostications were shaped by investment cycles rather than historical ones.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • Future
  • Discipline

• Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Life
  • Player
  • Chess