Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.
Gail Devers -
Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov -
It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
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I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.
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I've been sent lots of lovely gifts - everything from candy and peanut butter to hand-made quilts, pictures, and clothing. I was once sent a crate of avocados. Fortunately, I love them.
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When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
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Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.
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We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.
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It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.
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I don't like when I look too cluttered.
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For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
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The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all conditions.
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At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.
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I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama.
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“There's no reward in life without risk.”
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Most people don't watch a movie four or five times; they watch it once.
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It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.
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Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.
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[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a little more than fifty years, and I've gotten over my original astonishment.
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What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.
