Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.
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As long as a member state is a member state, there are no negotiations bilaterally on any trade agreement with third parties.
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I just saw a clip of Maria Bamford. She has a comedy show that was filmed and performed from her bed - the whole thing supposedly takes place in her bedroom at her parents house in Duluth, MN. I thought it was great and really strange - to have a comedy special without having to leave your bed.
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.
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Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.
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News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.
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I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.
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The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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I'll always be Chinese first. It probably isn't politically correct to say or something that the majority understands; I can change my shoes, I can swap my passport, but, I'll always have this face.
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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
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On films, you have the liberty of working out the details, the psychology, taking maybe more risks and takes than you can in television just because you can't be figuring things out on the day.
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We never tire of the friendships we form with books.
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The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.
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Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word. And there’s an opening convey of generalities. A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.
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Live an active life among people who are doing worthwhile things, keep eyes and ears and mind and heart open to absorb truth, and then tell of the things you know, as if you know them. The world will listen, for the world loves nothing so much as real life.
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I am in the Special Operations Executive because I can speak French and German and am good at making up stories, and I am a prisoner in the Ormaie Gestapo HQ because I have no sense of direction whatsoever.
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He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.
