Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar novels ever worried about the effects of prolonged exposure to the threat of nuclear war.
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Sometimes, once a fight starts, you have to do what you have to do to win.
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What's happened is that the digital age has made photography more accessible to people. Everyone is a photographer. But to do it [photography] at a certain level, well, there's a skill to it. Still, it's a good time for photography now.
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It is very important that, no matter what happens, you keep your feeling of self worth and value.
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I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?
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My dream is to do exactly what I'm doing. I love writing and directing, and being somebody that can write about an artist I love or make a film about it. That's great. I would leave the other stuff to those who do it much better.
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Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of them exactly. Finally you just have to chew it for its own private juice.
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Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.
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If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I've no problem shooting them.
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Pranayama teaches the aspirant to regulate his breathing and thereby control the mind.
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We respect everybody's individual opinion, and we have so much respect for veterans. We're probably one of the biggest movie employer of veterans.
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I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.
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It's an honor. It's tough enough just to make an All-Star team, but when you're able to be a starter, it just says a lot about being pretty much one of the faces of the NBA because the fans pick you.
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We have to be capable of facing such a number.
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Only at the Golden Globes do the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people in television.
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You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.
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Each life is one short word slowly uttered.
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The larger goal of Deep Democracy is not me changing you and you changing me. But we learning how to relate.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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I would argue that we have a patriotic duty to move toward energy independence and clean energy. It is a matter of national security - energy security, climate security, economic security, job security, everything.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
