Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect from you.
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Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
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On my actual 16th birthday, on the actual day, I went home and I had chicken korma and Peshwari naan bread and pilau rice, and that was fantastic.
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In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.
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I like to stretch my acting muscles.
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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.
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The Mafia and crime bosses of this world are amateurs compared to this syndicate, ruled by the prince of darkness and the master of deception who wears many disguises and has many aliases.
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Harry can paint but I can't. He has our father's talent while I, on the other hand, am about the biggest idiot on a piece of canvas. I did do a couple of drawings at Eton which were put on display. Teachers thought they were examples of modern art, but in fact, I was just trying to paint a house!
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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
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The euro is under pressure already today and this is adding to its problems.
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The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.
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If you wish to see the thousand years, look at today; if you wish to understand the millionfold, then look at the one or the two.
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Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth.
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Someone once told me that children are like heroin. You always want more. Yet first-borns are special because you'll never have your first child again.
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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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Many change initiatives are poorly thought out, and rolled out prematurely. Others are genuinely good ideas but the proponents underestimate the amount of time needed to make the change. And, I agree, true change usually requires people giving something up and so resistance is pretty well guaranteed for any meaningful change.
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I don't think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of.
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Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!
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[The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own merits or to be accepted by students solely on the basis of the teacher's assurance that it will be helpful in later life. [And yet,] mathematlcs is the key to understanding and mastering our physical, social and biological worlds.
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The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect from you.
