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.

Seneca the Younger

• Mind
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• Philosophy
• Fortune
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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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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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.

  

  A. R. Ammons
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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.

  

  Salvador Dali
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• Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
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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.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
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  • Believe
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• When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
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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.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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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.

  

  Lance Ito
  • Important
  • Truth
  • American

• 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.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Care
  • Balance
  • Smiling

• If your heart is in love, you can do anything.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Heart
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  • For Her

• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
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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.'

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Tired

• I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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• I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.'

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
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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.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
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• When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

  

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  • Good
  • Men
  • Bad

• You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • You
  • 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?

  

  Jackson Katz
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• Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Anything
  • Paper
  • Expensive

• A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

  

  Jean Baudrillard
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• One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.

  

  Eric Alterman
  • Mind
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• I'm the flavor of the month.

  

  George Clooney
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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.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Mind
  • Fall
  • Philosophy