Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.
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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
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There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.
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The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?
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I'm letting competition drive me, and when competition drives me, I don't think anyone can compete with me.
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You can be accessible without catering to an audience.
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The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.
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Companies figured out that the easiest way to make money was to reissue records that the accounting department had paid for years ago and already made a profit.
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Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word.
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So I've learned in the past, if a company approaches me and they want something like this, or something like that that I've done and I turn them down, they're going to do it anyhow.
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People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn't hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time - I would say eight to 10 cookouts.
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Everyone loves Beyonce. If you don't love Beyonce, we can't talk.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
