Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.
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I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.
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We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had an impact on black populations - that has for example eradicated large numbers of jobs that black people traditionally have been able to count upon and created communities where the tax base is lost now as a result of corporations moving to the third world in order to discover cheap labor.
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Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.
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When you live with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen.
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I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then. So you just close your eyes and think back to when you were as young as you can remember and had the least barriers to your creativity.
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Forgiveness is a form of the highest love
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I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.
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A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.
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All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense; a nation as Napoleon said, of "shopkeepers", has produced more adventurers, explorers and poets than probably any other in history.
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SNL is a home. You've got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it's a great time.
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Let must or if be damned with whomever's afraid down with ought with because with every brain which thinks it thinks, nor dares to feel.
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If he descended from heaven today the great warrior who beat the money-traders you would shout your "crucifige!" and nail him to the cross which he himself bore. But he mildly smiles upon your hate: "The truth will prevail, even if the bearer falls; the faith will live, for I give my life ... and stand tall at the cross for all warriors of the world.
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I'd say that anyone who is going to start a minority program to try to think in terms of a big library and some small kind of museum.
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I want to have a good time myself. I don't want to dread going to work no matter what the gig is. I think, selfishly, I will make sure that I have a good time; how about that?
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Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!
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I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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Instead of playing to win, I was playing not to lose. It reminds me of the story I once heard about two friends being chased by a bear, when one turned to the other and said, "I just realized that I don't need to outrun the bear; I only need to outrun you.
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Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.
