Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
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I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
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Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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The whole idea that the Constitution of the United States would be used to advance a political agenda is absurd.
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Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.
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Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
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Saving a life overrides territories.
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An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.
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I don’t suppose she would recognize a deep, beautiful thought if you handed it to her on a skewer with tartare sauce.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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We feel much sorrow for you, the elm tree had said. But what kind of sorrow-a real and sincere sorrow, or the superficial and pedantic sorrow of the immortal for a frail and flickering creature that was about to die?
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Magic is something that happens that appears to be impossible. What I call 'illusion magic' uses laws of science and nature that are already known. Real magic uses laws that haven't yet been discovered.
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I go broke a lot... I go broke a lot because I have this understanding that whatever I put out there, if I really am doing what's right, it's going to be rewarding, you know?
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I'm a big fan of fatherhood, and I'm a big fan of my family.
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I have three dogs at home. Even after losing a series or winning a series, they treat me the same way.
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The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
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Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
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I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.
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I have a horrible sense of direction.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
