Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
Quotes to Explore
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.
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I feel like a lot of directing is casting.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
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I'm a fast writer.
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
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When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
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My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.
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I'll never get another first premiere again, especially at Sundance. I've just been trying to fully engage myself in everything that's going on, and I hope to see other movies here while I'm here! I really want to!
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And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.
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History class was a forty-minute squirm from which I would emerge unscathed by insight. Down the hall in English Lit, though, there were stories to be had, and it was stories I craved.
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Writers in Britain aren't really celebrities. You become kind of a darling of a small set.
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It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.
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I had only heard about Fall Out Boy a couple months before we contacted him. I heard 'Saturday' and 'Grand Theft Autumn' and thought the lyrics were smart and the singer was insanely talented.
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Sometimes I think your face and your bearing and your energy have so much more to do with the jobs you get than the actual work and the time and the effort that you put in, or the talent even.
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When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.
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I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing it.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
