Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I'm really good at making teen angst romantic. I'm really good at dealing with heartbreak and things like that and making it into this whole experience. But there's no way to make someone-on-the-Internet-said-something-mean-about-me into romantic angst where you can listen to music and cry or whatever.
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
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I never wanted to be a dancer. I was too big, I was too slow. I remember not liking it. Later on, when I came to the United States, I realized I had a skill, and when you come to this country, you realize if you have a skill and a determination, you can do anything.
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Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.
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How high can bitcoin go? The real question is how low can the dollar go?
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Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.
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We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.
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Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!
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Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.
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...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal, to be used against the established order.
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I spent several years in the film finance business, but I returned to what I loved most about the industry - actual filmmaking, producing, writing and directing.
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You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.
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Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
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The fact of the matter is, that mistakes are really important way to learn...
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Or they'll put posters up saying pizza is the biggest source of tomato sauce in the American diet.
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I was in college, but I got kicked out. It was a very free school, but I created a "bad impression." Like I was a bit more fiery in those days. At the time I got kicked out, I knew exactly what I was going to do and didn't even bother to go back for a leaving certificate. Then I was singing in folk clubs around Birmingham and playing jazz in clubs on Sundays.
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
