Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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Ted Cruz ,when he was running for president, was a huge 'Princess Bride' fan. He would quote the lines and, you know, trying to win families and everything.
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I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so I do as much as I possibly can for our community and for our rights, so it's nice that everyone is supporting me as well.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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I'm an outsider.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.
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My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.
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We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.
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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
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The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
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The cup of life is not so shallow That we have drained the best That all the wine at once we swallow And lees make all the rest.
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I believe that all nations - strong and weak alike - must adhere to standards that govern the use of force. I - like any head of state - reserve the right to act unilaterally if necessary to defend my nation. Nevertheless, I am convinced that adhering to standards, international standards, strengthens those who do, and isolates and weakens those who don't.
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I know what women expect, and give it to them without disagreeable argument; they'll get it anyway.
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The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.
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Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.
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Being on set with my dad - that's so cool. People always ask me if that made me nervous, but it's the same element when you're a kid - when your parents come in the auditorium for those school performances. It calms you.
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There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
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Our capacity to compete in a knowledge-based economy is going to depend on our ability to offer the opportunity of college success to every student who's willing to work to achieve it.
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We all ran barefooted on the dusty roads in our past, but now the Emperor wears shoes, and it is our responsibility to ensure that the barefooted child and the doting mother are afforded a holistic environment to realise their dreams and ambitions.
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Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.
