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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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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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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There are more than a million British people living in Spain. There are hundreds of thousands of British people living in France. In fact there are tens of thousands of people living in almost every EU country and if we were to pull up the drawbridge on the English Channel, the truth is British people wouldn't be able to come and go because they'd take action against us.
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I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.
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A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.
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On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on a Southern highway, and a friend driving in a pony carriage passed me, stopped and said, "Have you heard that Charles Dickens is dead?" It was as if I had been robbed of one of my dearest friends.
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A big dog tends to be much more at ease with kids and gentle with them than a little one that's always yelping.
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No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.
