Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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I opened about a dozen employment centers for Arab women across Israel during my two years as minister of economy.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.
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Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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I think that, if anything, the pageant is great for people who suffer from body issues. It's all about being comfortable with what you're given and what you have and being able to flaunt it without being insecure. It's about empowering women, not making them feel weak or less.
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I drink a lot of water and I never leave the house without putting on moisturizer and lip gloss.
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I'm happy when I have, like, one fan, but the fact that I'm getting fans from different places and different communities, it's really amazing.
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I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.
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Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?
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The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Still may syllabes jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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I guess I don’t subscribe to the twee school. I remember trying to lose our copy of Thomas the Tank Engine before I had to read it again. Life is a more dimensional and interesting affair than vestigially Victorian notions of childhood. I was trying to make something substantial, something to be read and reread.
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They need to read the Scriptures; where it says in Matthew, chapter 4, verse 17, it says: 'Shut the fuck up.' That's the King James version, by the way.
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I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
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The sheer increase in the quantity of information movement favoured the visual organization of knowledge and the rise of perspective even before typography. (p. 128)
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My only regret in the theater is that I could never sit out front and watch me.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.
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When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
