Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.
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We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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You see a Donald Trump on TV, just like you'd see Joan Rivers on TV when she was living, and you see a real person. That's the Donald Trump that I know.
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You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there.
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The bottom line is this: Cash, in modest increments, has a role in any portfolio. But unless you are Warren Buffett, you should limit it to 2 or 3 percent.
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Action movies today are going to so fast, you can't say you're going to do everything faster and faster.
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Human reason is by nature architectonic.
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I was a whole new human being, he said of this transformation. I liked people, they liked me. It was like an exorcism, kicking the devil outta me!
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I'm convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.
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Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.
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I think extreme secrecy is a bad sign in all startups. Very few startups die because they tell you exactly how their technology works. On the long list of startup killers, that's pretty far down. Though on the list of entrepreneur fears, it's pretty high.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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Robin Williams was a cultural hero of mine, and in the encounters and interactions I was able to share with him, he was always gentle and generous, humane and thoughtful and hilarious.
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In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.
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It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
