Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.
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I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'
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We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.
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Most style is not honest enough.
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I enjoy my life. I think I have a very good life. And I think I'm very satisfied with the direction of my career and just my lifestyle and everything like that. So I wouldn't change a single thing.
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If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete.
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Our Congress passes laws that subsidize corporations, farms, oil companies, airlines, and houses for suburbia, but when they turn their attention to the poor they suddenly become concerned about balancing the budget and cut back on funds for Head Start.
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In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'
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When I first seriously decided to become a cartoonist would have been '99/2000, right before 9/11. I've been writing and illustrating stories in the world post-9/11 since then, watching the world change around me.
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I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.
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I can't not put myself in the shoes of every person I pass.
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I feel like [throughout] my entire career and life, that I've been judged by people who really did not know me. But I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was so little to go on out there. If you only see videos of me being crazy and hearing little things here and there, then obviously you're not going to have any idea who I really am.
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He was a very smart, key young person who helped us get production to work in all parts of the country.
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The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.
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When she cried, he would say, "there is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.
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Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.
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You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.
