Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
Seneca the Younger
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
Rachel Kushner
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It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
A. N. Wilson
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
Yo-Yo Ma
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Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.
Gary Ross
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There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I am unable to say.
Gamaliel Bailey
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I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
Utada Hikaru
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Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.
Adam Grant
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
Felicity Jones
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A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.
Olivia Wilde
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I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
Vikram Seth
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If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Wal-Mart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.
Jack Ma
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I had a dream of music and art and the big city in which I would get lost, where no one would know me and I wouldn't know anyone, where I would work at some ordinary job, and if one day I got up in the morning and decided I wasn't going to go to work anymore, no one would ask questions.
Ori Gersht
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Anything by Lorrie Moore speaks to a certain kind of person.
Jami Attenberg
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I write in a hurry, because the little one, who has been sleeping a long time, begins to call for me. Poor thing! when I am sad, I lament that all my affections grow on me, till they become too strong for my peace, though they all afford me snatches of exquisite enjoyment.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.
Stefan Banach
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A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance - you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
Arthur Miller
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No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
Seneca the Younger
