Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
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Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.
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As professional soccer players, we take our bodies to the extreme. We're the people at the gym that look like we're breaking the machines. Pushing our bodies to the limits is what makes us so strong and capable and Olympians. It's not an easy thing to consistently do over and over again to your body.
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I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?
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'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book.
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I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience's attention.
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In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.
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The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
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Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.
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I know and it's so sick. It's so sad. And you know something? I knew I would get upset with a game like this. And you will see this type of game again. So let me give you fair warning.
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Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.
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Technology does not always rhyme with perfection and reliability. Far from it in reality!
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That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
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We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
