Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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I drink a lot of water.
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I find it really hard to relate to the Bond women or Angelina Jolie in 'Salt.' And of course it's informed by my experiences and the people I've met along the way and the places I've been.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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Over the years, I have worked very hard to achieve what I have so far. But I've not been alone in this journey. A lot of the credit for this goes to my fans - it's because of them that I'm here today.
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If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
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For me, it's important that I can talk to my customers all over the world. They can comment on what they like, tell me what fits - we have a daily dialogue. I can also see what she looks like and how she wears my shoes, which is a huge advantage. Thank God for Instagram; it helps me keep connected.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!
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Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we'd go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,' and I would like to keep that alive.
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Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas – including this one.
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I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.
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The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you can't have in America without enslavement, without Jim Crow, terrorism, everything that came after that.
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The combination of lentils with rice or bulgur is the absolute height of Levantine comfort food. I could eat it every day.
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I think several generations of my family had novels in the drawer. You know the montage in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' where each character has produced some sort of minor work? It was like having a magician in the household.
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I do think it's important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don't really look like that.
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The secret is to cook the aubergines the day before and let them dry of all the oil they drank in cooking. When you cook aubergine, they eat a lot of oil. It can be very heavy.
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Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.
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American commentators always ridicule the Japanese as being outdated because of company loyalty. 21 year olds that work in coffee shops don't want to admit it, but their system of "being in a band" is working the same way.
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Sometimes you need to start again, in order to fly.
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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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I feel like I've had a lot of painful situations that I intentionally delete from my memory.
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The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company
