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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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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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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If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.
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I just want to sleep and exercise and travel for fun. And relax. It sounds so ordinary, but I haven't done it for 20 years.
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The scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work, in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages.
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A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs.
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Short stories that's all it's ever been Don't you worry about the ending Babe, before we begin I have seen the sun That's behind the rain I have felt the joy That's behind the pain.
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To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.
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The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These are the ideas that are essential to science fiction. The phenomena change, the basic ideas do not. These ideas are the same philosophical concepts that have intrigued mankind throughout history.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
