Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
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I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where, I think, everyone can do the job, and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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Homecourt is everything in the NBA.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.
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When I got the role in 'Homeland,' it really opened something up. Other people respected me more as an actor, doors were opened, and I understood for the first time that it wasn't personal. All that rejection wasn't personal.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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Before going on 'X Factor' again, I felt like I'd tried everything else.
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Music is how you feel.
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When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.
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Many people are insecure of many people.
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When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.
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I hate the idea that people should listen to what actors have to say on certain issues more than anyone else. Actors have no more right to be heard than anyone.
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Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
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One of the things I love about 'Idol' besides the drama, the backstories, and the crazy arrangements on popular songs is the auditions, when everyone is full of hope and nerves.
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I 100% want to support the movement, #MeToo and Time's Up. We are a sisterhood.
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Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.
