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
-
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.
-
I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
-
I want to have a long career.
-
I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
-
We've never been anti-Semitic.
-
Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
-
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.
-
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.
-
If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
-
Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'
-
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.
-
The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account.
-
My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.
-
I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.
-
There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.
-
Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
-
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.
-
I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.
-
I have been willing, in the case of civil statutes, to acknowledge a doctrine of scrivener's error that permits a court to give an unusual (though not unheard of) meaning to a word which, if given its normal meaning, would produce an absurd and arguably unconstitutional result.
-
When I wrote 'Your Republic Is Calling You,' it was Franz Kafka's writing that I had most in mind, and James Joyce's 'Ulysses.' Entirely out of the blue, Kafka's characters receive an order to go somewhere, and when they try to comply, they never quite manage it. Ki-yong in 'Your Republic Is Calling You' is precisely that sort of character.
-
In modelling or football, being 30 is very bad. But, for an actress, ageing is like wine. You taste better and better because your body, your mind, your feelings, all this is a tool and it's getting sharper with time.
-
I care about Roger Sterling, one of the most subtle and amazing characters in dramatic history ["Mad Men"]. This guys who knows precisely who he is, yet leaves us time after time hoping desperately for him to finally grab control of his life and some responsibility for those around him.
-
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.
