Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.
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I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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I don't know anyone who likes the American League games better. Maybe some fans do. But if you're not an actual DH, you probably prefer the National League.
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
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I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the effort and too little about the result.
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I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
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I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.
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In Singapore, Malcolm X type of activity would be extremely difficult because the government can be very harsh on lawbreakers.
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Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you don't have a foundation, the roof isn't going to stand.
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All those things they say about a baby changing your perspective - it does!
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Uninfluenced by others, he never knew he influenced them; he had no idea they liked him.
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There were clouds like sharks with open jaws in the sky that morning.
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We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we enjoyed birth. You can't share either experience.
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I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, 'Does this suck?' and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, 'I'm on fire, I'm amazing!' and I don't think that's the way to work.
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You're not meant to do what's easy, you're meant to challenge yourself.
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I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are?
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Movies are not finished. They are abandoned. A movie is never finished.
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I can't watch my first audition because it makes me too upset. I just think it is really sad. I look at myself and don't recognize myself. I do think fame and fortune changes people.
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Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.
