Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
Saffron Aldridge -
I voted for Barack Obama.
LaDainian Tomlinson -
I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
There's a lot more to me than just power.
Canelo Alvarez -
I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
Waris Ahluwalia -
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
Walter Bagehot
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
Damon Albarn Gorillaz -
I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
Action Bronson -
Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.
Barbara Broccoli -
People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
Cameron Crowe -
I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'
Nadia Comaneci -
The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.
Carine Roitfeld
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I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.
Adam Driver -
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
Barbra Streisand -
When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I have a harder time finding somebody. The problem is we were growing professionally during the years most people were concentrating on being a person.
Karen Carpenter The Carpenters -
She don’t set no store to see a king. Her pa a king back in Africa, and they shoot him dead. Them Portuguese slavers show her what it mean to be a king-it mean you die quick like everybody, and spill blood red like everybody, and cry out loud in pain and scared-oh, fine to be a king, and fine to see one. Do them White folk believe this lie?
Orson Scott Card -
They mean a trip to Paris or RomeTo someone else but not for me.The trains and boats and planesTook you away, away from me.
Hal David
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The true unconscious is the well-head, the fountain of real motivity. The sex of which Adam and Eve became conscious derived fromthe very God who bade them be not conscious of it.
D. H. Lawrence -
I went to dinner with my mother-in-law and I just realized I was talking in sound bites to her and expecting her to laugh every time I said anything or be jotting something down in a notebook. So you have to kind of really have a talk with yourself after you've done a press tour and say, 'Chill out!'
Emily Mortimer -
I didn't imagine getting to 50, let alone still be playing music. When I was 18, I thought it'd all be over by the time I was 21.
Paul Weller Incognito -
Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration one day. That's a supreme joy. And why the characters keep showing up.
Barry Hannah -
An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.
William Shakespeare -
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
Seneca the Younger