Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.
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In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness.
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I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.
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Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.
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I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.
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I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.
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We really have to think of reasoning the way we think of romance, it takes two to tango. There has to be a communication.
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For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
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We hope British citizens will follow it, but we have no way of obliging British citizens to do so.
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Competitions make me nervous. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating and not, 'I have to do this to win.' I forget it is a competition.
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Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.
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What is the little one thinking about?
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The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.
