Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
Quotes to Explore
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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I want to have a long career.
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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
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In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'
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I'll be totally honest in that I feel tremendously lucky that I am offered incredible jobs all the time to direct, but the problem that I have just personally is that there are only so many years in my life to dedicate to certain projects.
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The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account.
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My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.
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I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.
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There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.
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Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
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Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.
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I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.
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Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.
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He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.
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For a long time, I didn't think I wanted to live in the Ozarks or write about the region. It seemed to be a sure recipe for obscurity, and to be obscure was not my conscious ambition.
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Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.
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People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
