Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.
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There are all these awards that you've never heard of, and you get nominated, and suddenly you're at these awards shows, so you really don't care if you win. You really don't. You're going there, you're getting dressed up. And then you get to the awards show, and you sit down. You walk the red carpet. Everybody loves you. It's great. You sit down, and all of a sudden your category comes up, and you get nervous. And it's a complicated emotion, because it's not like you absolutely want to win, but then you don't want to lose.
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Religion has the same relation to man's heavenly condition that mathematics has to his earthly one: both the one and the other are merely the rules of the game. Belief in God and belief in numbers: local truth and truth of location.
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So long as there are men, there will be wars.
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To spend too much time in studies is sloth.
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Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.
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Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.
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National Socialism will use its own revolution for establishing of a new world order.
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Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.
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Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually believed that we could be trusted to make up our own minds in the whirl of differing ideas. That we could be trusted to remain free, even when there were very, very seductive voices - taking advantage of our freedom of speech - who were trying to turn this country into the kind of place where the government could tell you what you can and cannot do.
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I get depressed pretty easily but have found the best way to combat it is to surround yourself with people you can talk openly with about it.
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Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.
