Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
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I've always been a very outdoors sort of girl. I'm more a tomboy than a girly girl.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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I think Gadi Eizenkot is a very good commander.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.
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Two young actresses I admire are Emma Stone and Emma Watson, because they are intelligent, talented actresses and have a great sense of humor. They have learned to balance what they love in life - acting, school and everything else.
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I grew up with an abundance of things from our garden, so fried food was not enjoyable.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
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In Fall Out Boy, I noticed that I wasn't putting all that much soul into it. It was just kind of screaming, I guess. I was just dying to get out of there!
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I love to do a messy top knot because it's so easy but looks like it could have taken a bit of effort!
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Money for me today does not really matter.
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Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson, they omit the words "all men are created equal." Why? They have adopted a temporary national constitution, in the preamble of which, unlike our good old one, signed by Washington, they omit "We, the People," and substitute "We, the deputies of the sovereign and independent States." Why? Why this deliberate pressing out of view, the rights of men, and the authority of the people?
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When I became a standup comic, my hero, one of them, was Richard Pryor, and you know, I think that comedians, like, comedians talk about hacks, and what a hack is, is someone who does stuff that's not original.
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A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.
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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
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If you do not do your God-assigned task, throughout eternity there will be a job that has never been done.
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Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.
