Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
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Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
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Everyone takes a bad selfie - the first thing is to know that.
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If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
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The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.
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My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.
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Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren't allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.
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You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.
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It doesn't always make sense to have a token on the blockchain that is both useful and represents ownership - it has to be something where there's a network effect. That's why I cite Facebook as an example of what could be disrupted more so than, say, Amazon - which is bit more centralized and is not exactly a network of users in the same way.
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America rules the world - by force.
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The great thing about doing a series about the Broadway community is that the possibilities are endless.
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If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
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Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, Madonna's and shameless nudes.. ..has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition. I have transformed myself into the nullity of forms and pulled myself out of the circle of things, out of the circle-horizon in which the artist and forms of nature are locked.
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Accepting people as they are has the miraculous effect of helping them improve. Acceptance doesn't prohibit growth; rather, it fosters it.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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Nothing is ours except time.
