Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I'm like a sight gag.
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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I lived with a German family. I learned about schnitzel from Ritta Seiffer. When she cooked she'd get the oil really hot so that it sealed everything and in the middle was very juicy. That's the secret to a great schnitzel.
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Does 'Shooting Fish' have less artistic merit than a play like 'Angels In America,' which I did? Well, probably. But it's good for something.
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
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I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly 'Scrubs' guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
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I've had a job since I was 11. I had a paper route, I worked at a video store, I was a toy doll at FAO Schwartz when I was in high school. And I think that it's made me really disciplined when it came to pursuing acting, because I had no clue how to go about it.
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A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.
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I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.
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There is something profoundly satisfying about sharing a meal. Eating together, breaking bread together, is one of the oldest and most fundamentally unifying of human experiences.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
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Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.
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... frugality makes a poor man rich.
