Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.
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I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away.
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Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.
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Times have changed, but people don't change. That's why ON THE ROAD has never been irrelevant.
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Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.
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If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.
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Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.
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It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.
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Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.
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Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
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And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.
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I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.
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As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist has a love disorder of one sort or another, and each has a story to tell - of love lost or denied, love twisted or betrayed, love perverted or shackled to violence. Broken attachments litter the office floors like pick-up sticks. People appear with frayed seams and spilling pockets.
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My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.
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“Abyss calls to abyss." It is there in the very depths that the divine impact takes place, where the abyss of our nothingness encounters the Abyss of mercy, the immensity of the all of God. There we will find the strength to die to ourselves and, losing all vestige of self, we will be changed into love.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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Being who you are for ever is the price you pay for immortality.
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You know, also I, you know, I was on those birth control pills and my breasts were like, they hurt... and, you know, it was like they blew up like. You know, they wouldn't fit into any of my dresses. I had to quit taking those birth control pills... This was like - I mean they were like, I thought they should be photographed really... So they were, for immortality. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
