Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.
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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.
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With regard to North Korea, between myself and President Obama earlier, with regard to the so-called launch of satellite, the missile launch, we shared the view that it undermines the efforts of the various countries concerned to achieve the resolution through dialogue.
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When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.
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Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
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Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
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I'll never be Jennifer Lawrence or Tom Cruise, someone who can hold a movie and then be charming and charismatic doing promotion. I haven't got what they've got. But at least I'm now comfortable just being myself.
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All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, I love Van McCann from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Matt Healy from The 1975.
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I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.
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Home is most important in the long run.
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I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.
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There is no empirical evidence to suggest that ageing in humans has been modified by any means, nor is there evidence that it is even possible to measure biological age. And nothing has been demonstrated to be true when it comes to anti-ageing medicines.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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I've played such serious characters that no one sees me the way I actually am, which is completely cheesy and goofy, so it would be fun to do a romantic comedy and just have a good laugh.
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Always follow your own path.
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I've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win.
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Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so.
