Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.
Nadia Comaneci -
Regulation creates a moral hazard.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.
Edie Brickell -
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
Naguib Mahfouz -
When I was younger I didn't have much financially, like we couldn't afford a lot of stuff and I remember seeing little girls' rooms on TV and they'd all be pink. I didn't have my own room, I shared with my brother, so I would have this daydream and imagine that one day I could have my own room and it would all be pink, like Cinderella's.
Nicki Minaj
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I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.
Ariel Pink -
There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.
Henry Ward Beecher -
I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.
Abraham Lincoln -
You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.
Mike Tyson -
The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.
Albert Einstein -
The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.
Honore de Balzac
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I think the U.K. is an amazing place and has been extremely good to me. Some of my favorite and most-listened-to bands are from England. I have met many good people there and have been in front of some of the most loyal audiences I have ever encountered.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
As we get robots becoming more sophisticated, I think we should worry sooner rather than later on how much they could take over, but I think it'll mostly be a positive thing. In terms of deadlines it won't be any worse than nuclear weapons.
Bill Gates -
Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier. Many ideas- probably most- will have to be discarded somewhere in the process of producing authenticated knowledge. Authentication is as important as the raw information itself, and the manner and speed of the authentication process can be crucial.
Thomas Sowell -
I guess the biggest difference between me and many of today's female graduate students is that a lot of them were raised by mothers with careers, and they got college degrees studying with female professors. Both of those factors make the enterprise of educating yourself for a serious profession seem feasible.
Debra Monroe -
Perhaps no other book has been denounced so vigorously by those who have never read it as has the Book of Mormon.
Boyd K. Packer -
If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.
Barry Jenkins
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If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
Oscar Hijuelos -
I was part of a show called 'Manifest Equality' in Los Angeles in 2010, and I realized there was a disconnect between people who are gay or have gay friends and are gay-friendly, and people who think they don't know any gay people.
iO Tillett Wright -
The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice.
Aristotle -
The profit on a good action is to have done it.
Seneca the Younger