Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.
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Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.
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Every villain needs her story told.
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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.
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I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations - 'Love is a flower,' 'The sky is so dark' - but comedy lives in specifics.
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I don't keep secrets from my parents, really; it's pretty open.
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
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But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.
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With 'That Awkward Moment', you could argue I'm just playing the girlfriend of Zac Efron, but the director was such a creative force and let me make her my own. I loved being part of something that felt so relevant and fresh.
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My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical.
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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
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Most comic writers like to think they could play it straight if only their public would let them. Waugh is able to be grave without difficulty for he has always been comic for serious reasons. He has his own, almost romantic sense of propriety.
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Look at this face. Do you see my foolish hope?
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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
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They pass upon their old, tremulous feet,Creeping with little satchels down the street,And they remember, many years ago,Passing that way in silks. They wander, slowAnd solitary, through the city ways,And they alone remember those old daysMen have forgotten.
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It seems to me shallow and arrogant for any man in these times to claim he is completely self-made, that he owes all his success to his own unaided efforts. Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.
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Our challenge isn't that we can't be motivated. It's not that we aren't smart, excitable, or that we lack passion - what we don't have is the ability to sustain motivation over time.
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Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.
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Anti-Semitism is the unifying element of the reconstruction of Germany.
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If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.
