Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.
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Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She was harassed and placed under surveillance by the Nation of Islam (NOI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
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I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.
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The density of space junk peaks around 620 miles up, in the middle of so-called low-Earth orbit. That's bad, because many weather, scientific, and reconnaissance satellites circle in various low-Earth orbits.
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I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.
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As an actor myself, I know we go where the work is, but I think it's sad the Lyric haven't found any homegrown talent.
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And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.
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God's role in superintending our world and our lives is neither absentee landlord nor micromanager.
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China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with the culture.
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We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks.
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Since the adjournment of Congress the ratifications of the treaty with Great Britain for abolishing the mixed courts for the suppression of the slave trade have been exchanged. It is believed that the slave trade is now confined to the eastern coast of Africa, whence the slaves are taken to Arabian markets.
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A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.
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When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.
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Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
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Love of action is not industry.