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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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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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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I wanted to do something heroic if I was going to be on TV. And the first thing that appeals to me once I have decided I don't want to be the bad guy is to find things that are not black and white.
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Most of my diversity conversations are had with the majority population, because frankly, those people are the people who have the most influence over everybody's career.
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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.
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There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.
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Management is a seven-days-a-week job. The Intensity of it takes it toll on your health. Some people want to go on for ever, and I obviously don't.
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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.
