Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge.
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After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
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When President Hassan Rouhani was elected in Iran in 2013, he welcomed back the far-flung children of Iran. But one by one, they have been arrested and imprisoned upon their return, a fate that has made me increasingly reluctant to risk going back to a homeland I've not seen since 1992.
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We all have hierarchies at work - even on set, the runner would never walk up to the director and ask for a cup of coffee.
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There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.
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All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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I really do feel like I'm in better shape and look better now - even after having three kids - than I did before.
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A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.
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I think cheese smells funny, but I feel bananas 'are' funny. I'm assuming Swamp told the whole story of the executives seriously asking us to replace the banana with cheese because they thought it was funnier.
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I've seen composers work on 30 films at one go. So, eight or even 10 albums in a year is no big deal.
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Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
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Pessimists are born, true, but they also can be made.
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I have had the good fortune to live - as an inside witness and, even, a modest participant - at a time when our understanding of this wonder we call 'life' has made its most revolutionary advances.
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I go for long walks in Newlands Forest in Cape Town, and I go to the Turkish baths on Sunday mornings.
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I was an altar boy. I could probably quote the Bible from beginning to end.
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I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits.
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The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.
