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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Pessimists are born, true, but they also can be made.
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Working out, no matter what time of the night, rejuvenates me. At times, I don't feel sleepy after a workout session, as I am all fresh and charged up, and I don't mind compromising on my sleep.
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I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself.
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I've been able to go so many places. I had the opportunity to go to Hong Kong when I was thirteen years old which is crazy. I lived there for three months. It was amazing. I couldn't ask for a more enriched life so far.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
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I recommend to any of you, that's always a good way to make a film: use the interesting bits.
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The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.