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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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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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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I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.
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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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I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.
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I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.
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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare. I actually want to do this Shakespeare play in New York, but I think it's interesting that there's this gaping hole in the repertoire in the American theater, which is Shakespeare. It's hardly ever done, compared to how often it's done in other companies, not just Britain. Someone from the Roundabout Theater Company - I said, "You never do Shakespeare." And he said, "Yes, we're not very good at it." And I thought, "What a terrible thing to say.".
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He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.
