Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.
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Time is the ultimate long tail. Even with a big wad of money up front, if something sells forever, the back end is what ultimately counts.
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I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.
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I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.
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'Steve Jobs' is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don't think there is more than a total of 10 minutes that takes place in a person's home. They're all in offices, courtrooms, laboratories, things like that.
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I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
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I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree. Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time.
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I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or patriotism. That in any being worthy of being human there is also a demand for justice, for liberty, and that justice needs the evidence of all our lives, liberty is one and indivisible and collective, and no one can talk of justice solely for expediency's sake, nor of liberty while human beings, anywhere else on earth, are still in bondage.
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I think many people have an illusion of success based on entering in at a level that's higher than their experiences.
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I want to - we're working toward Justice League, and I really want to create the - part of the thing I really want to create is the possibility of a world where they could exist together.
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This is a show I've always wanted to do. I wanted to do this 15 years ago. We lived in San Diego and my church group there was going to get to do it and I had everything ready to go, but they didn't get the rights. They had to change everything at the last minute, and I've been holding on to the script and director's book since then.
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From every human being there rises a light.
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A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.
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We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.
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Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.
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The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
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I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.
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The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
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The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.
