Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

Seneca the Younger

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• I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.'

  

  Raekwon
  • World
  • Soul
  • Myself

• This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • People
  • Life
  • Dream

• What's become a big theme in my music is my dad as a narrative character. I never had the opportunity to understand our relationship in a more adult capacity. The unknown is great material for any creative outlet.

  

  K. Flay
  • Great
  • Music
  • Character

• Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Money
  • Education
  • College

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.

  

  Nacho Figueras
  • Great
  • Family
  • Kids

• I feel like with 'Chuck,' because it was a comedy-based show, it was more cartoon-ish. It was just more playful. We had a lot more fun with it. There was a lot of silliness in there. There were serious moments, as well, and there was a lot of heart in that show, but its baseline was comedy.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Heart
  • Fun
  • Comedy

• My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Father

• Like a lot of young lads who dreamt about being a singer, I was a massive fan of Robbie Williams and couldn't believe my luck when, not only did I get to meet my idol, but sing with him, too.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Believe
  • Young
  • Luck

• We did 356 'Dallas' episodes between 1978 and 1991. The most memorable moment for me happened in 1980 when I got shot at the end of the third series. The rest is a blur.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • End
  • Moment
  • Memorable

• Of all the things we have done, the most important - the one that history will record as the principal contribution of our generation - is that we understand how to turn the armed struggle into a Revolution; that we realized that it was essential to create a new mentality to build a new society.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Important
  • Done
  • History

• When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.

  

  Haniel Long
  • People
  • Night
  • Dark

• After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Money
  • Book
  • Years

• You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Life
  • Think
  • Death

• I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • School
  • Well
  • Academic

• Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Country
  • Devil

• Perhaps it is the positive knowledge that humans now possess the means to destroy their whole planet, the fear that they have in this way themselves become the gods, dreadfully charged with their own continued existence, that has made comic-book and movie myth escapist.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Fear

• My heart is warm with friends I make,  And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,  No matter where it's going.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Heart
  • Friends

• It cannot be too clearly understood that this is not a free country, and it will be an evil day for the legal profession when it is.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Country
  • Free
  • Evil

• We all have our own takes on things. To being yourself. The abstract, the whole thing that I play with, seems to result in seeing through your lenses, and once you express how you see things to others, you start to see there are similarities between all people. It's kind of like, no matter how far you go, you're still where you started, in a way.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Play
  • Being Yourself

• I think the movie Light of the World will help a lot of pastors.  It should get a lot of people sold-uh, saved.

  

  Jack Chick
  • People
  • World
  • Movie

• Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Learning
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