Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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I went to a lot of college camps when I was younger... You just admire those players because they're at a higher level than you at that time.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.
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I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
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Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.
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To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope.
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Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.
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I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.
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If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.
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The U.S. military today garrisons the planet in a fashion without historical precedent. Successive administrations, regardless of party, justify and perpetuate this policy by insisting that positioning U.S. forces in distant lands fosters peace, stability, and security. In the present century, however, perpetuating this practice has visibly had the opposite effect. In the eyes of many of those called upon to "host" American bases, the permanent presence of such forces smacks of occupation. They resist. Why should U.S. policymakers expect otherwise?
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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You tend to find the best in yourself as an artist when you're challenged.
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Music is the perfect type of art.
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He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.
