Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
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I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.
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There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.
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I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.
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I originally wanted to embrace the imagery and forthrightness of rap music. There are some interesting, dynamic voices in rap. But I find most of it irresponsible in its overt violence and commercialization of anger. As artists, we believe we can will action through language. If that's the case, we have to take responsibility for what we say.
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TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.
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In a nursery, if you don't take care of those plants, your profits get lost real quickly. You have to weed. You have to water. You have to nurture. Also, you have to take care of your employees in such a way that they do the same.
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If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.
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My brain doesn't like to be quiet.
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People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.
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I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was 5.
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I want to be known for this character on TV two nights a week, and then I want to go away and live my life in private.
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Regret...when it comes to you, I have oceans of it.
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I was, like, talking to these kids, and I look up, and there was, like, 25 cameras around me. And I ran. I ran away. I, like, straight up ran away, and I was so scared, and then, like, it happened, and after I was done, it kinda sunk in.
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Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.
