Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
Candice Olson -
Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
Carly Fiorina -
I love 'The Guardian' series. Bianca St. Ives is one of my favorite heroines ever, and the combination of action, suspense, and romance makes her story pure fun to write.
Karen Robards -
I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
Edith Wharton -
I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
W. H. Davies -
We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.
Beau Willimon
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But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
Pablo Neruda -
This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
Jack Vance -
I think people like it when you have a bit of personality.
Lara Stone -
We all know Illinois has big challenges. And under Gov. Rauner, things have only gotten worse.
J. B. Pritzker -
Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
I got my first Charvet knit tie when I was 15. I actually stole it from my father. I love them because you can wear them day to night. They're French and preppy and have been around since the 1800s.
Nate Berkus
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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.
Karen Armstrong -
I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.
Daniel Cormier -
A storytelling device teaches. I hate to say it that way, because kids tune out. I don't teach on purpose, but I'm glad that it happens sometimes.
Yuri Lowenthal -
I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.
Barry Unsworth -
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
Ovid -
I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
Patrick Marber
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I'm very Asian, and also my mom raised me to be polite and to eat whatever is put in front of me. I actually enjoy snails a lot. And I've eaten sea urchin and that shebang.
Mirai Nagasu -
Shows have been sold out. It's overwhelming, you know. I had no idea what to expect with this new sound and everything and just to see so many people just come out and embrace it, it's overwhelming.
Vanilla Ice -
I got the pumps It aint got medicine
Nicki Minaj -
I spend three hours a day writing and the rest of my day getting over it.
Flannery O'Connor -
For the pleasure of giving, because what's the point of just having? If I give a thing, I remember how happy we both were when I made the gift.
Elizabeth Wein -
So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.
Seneca the Younger