Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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When enacted, health care reform provides generous tax credits to help people afford their health insurance premiums.
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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
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Sex appeal is a good thing for commercial cinema. Though I can't sit at home and consider myself a sex symbol, it is for people to do so. I want to be known as an interesting actor.
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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
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I suppose I could have sat back and pitied myself. For a time I wondered if I'd ever be able to go on to a stage and perform again. After a couple of weeks I began to feel I could fight my way back to health if I put my mind to it. I thought to myself: 'Pity never did anybody any good. Go on. Patsy, show 'em what you can do'
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But when you want to come to work, it makes things that much better. Mentally, when you're at work, it doesn't feel like work. When you take the fun part away from basketball, that's a problem.
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I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.
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The only women who don't believe that sexual harassment is a real problem in this country are women who have never been in the workplace.
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I think that there's a proliferation of music that is done entirely in the bedroom for an Internet audience, but there's no way in hell that you could actually kill off a live show, and its importance in the creation of music - it's just impossible.
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If you get rid of all these giveaways and loopholes and deductions and credits, then you can sharply lower the rates.
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I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
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And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express. "Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince. "They are pursuing nothing at all," said the switchman. "They are asleep in there, or if they are not asleep they are yawning. Only the children are flattening their noses against the windowpanes." "Only the children know what they are looking for," said the little prince. "They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry..." "They are lucky," the switchman said.
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My name is Marshall Mathers, I'm an alcoholic, I have a disease and they don't know what to call it.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.
