Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.
Quotes to Explore
-
At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.
-
I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
-
I never was a very good singer.
-
Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
-
I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
-
Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.
-
Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'
-
Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.
-
I haven't thought about writing so much as potentially producing and finding my own projects to get into production. I want to be able to buy the rights to a story that I have read or a book that I have read.
-
I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.
-
A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support.
-
After almost 30 years of playing this sport, I've learned something. I've learned that, no matter what happens, or happened... or where you are, or where you've been... at the end of the day: tennis is tennis. It's always, always tennis. And there's nothing better.
-
Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress.
-
If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls.
-
I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
-
I think was able to do a lot of things here.
-
The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.
-
Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations - if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.
-
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
-
And this is yet another reminder that the world must unite, we must be together, regardless of nationality, or race, or faith, in fighting against the scourge of terrorism. We can - and will - defeat those who threaten the safety and security of people all around the world.
-
I think the only way to maintain profitability is to meet the needs of the customers.
-
I'm interested in making films that ask questions and don't particularly provide answers.
-
Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.
