Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.
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You get more insight as you get older, on everything.
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It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.
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I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.
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By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies that the Golden Era which had prevailed until then was beginning to disintegrate. And by 1953, it had come to an end. Hollywood was a dismal, tragic place.
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Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.
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I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.
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Some you win some you lose.
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For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.
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I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.
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My whole life, I've been trying to make people proud.
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My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care and all the things that they were way behind in - housing, all of those things.
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I learned how important physical conditioning is. I learned how to focus on an objective in spite of all kinds of hazards. I learned how to deal with stress, too.
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When I was a kid, my favorite after-school snack was hominy and pickled pigs feet.
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The sporting qualities of a fish are dependent neither on its size nor its weight, but on the effort of concentration, the skill and mastery the fish demands from the fisherman
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I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.
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I'm not easy to live with. My wife is a saint.
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I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
