Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
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We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.
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I think beautiful independent films are made, and I think they're as close to what theater can be because they're not loaded with all of the extra stuff. It's human, and it's more organic, but theater is very unique... It's a different connection altogether.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.
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Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yourself that you look good.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
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But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.
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I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
