Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
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Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
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And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.
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I think that when you are on a four-inch balance beam, you don't care about laughing or smiling or waving to the crowd because you're going to be down in a second.
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If your heart is in love, you can do anything.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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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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A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality.
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How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?
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Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
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President Obama made a big speech. He welcomed the members of the U.N. General Assembly to New York, and he said, 'I'd like to encourage you to do some shopping while you're here.' I think it worked because China immediately bought eight banks, two car companies, and the state of Wyoming.
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The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.
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A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.
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Being deliberate in decisionmaking isn't always flashy, but it does get results.
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Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.
