Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.Seneca the Younger
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I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
Sam Waterston -
So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
Sally Kirkland -
I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.
P. J. Harvey -
Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.
Omar Epps -
Across the globe, disadvantaged children are not living up to their potential because if they attend school at all, the schools are usually not designed to meet their extra needs.
Wendy Kopp
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I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand -
Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder -
I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.
Rachel Bloom -
American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.
Laetitia Casta -
A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
Abraham Lincoln
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I've got lots of friends who are musicians, so if they ask me to do things, I'll go and do it for a laugh. I don't want to be a pop star or anything like that.
Kate Moss -
I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.
Eddie Izzard -
There is no religion higher than truth.
Helena Blavatsky -
Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.
Oswald Chambers -
We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.
Frances Wright
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You think I don't want to? It's those TV networks, Marge: they won't let me. One quality show after another, each one fresher and more brilliant than the last. If they only stumbled once, just gave us thirty minutes to ourselves, but they won't! They won't let me live!
Dan Castellaneta -
What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?
Leopold Kronecker -
Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.
Plato -
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
Seneca the Younger