Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
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After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
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The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.
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I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
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People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
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I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.
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It's the big question of every TV show, right, where you have these two people who it's clear the world wants to put them together and everyone wants to see them together, but also when you're telling these stories you can't throw these people together immediately.
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I'm not a car person. Three years after 'The Da Vinci Code' came out, I still had my old, rusted Volvo. And people are like, 'Why don't you have a Maserati?' It never occurred to me. It wasn't a priority for me. I just didn't care.
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From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.
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Nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
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We will also discuss the role of women in the Church. Remember that the Church (la chiesa) is feminine.
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No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.
