Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
Quotes to Explore
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.
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If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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It's ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done over who they are.
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I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.
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Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.
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If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.
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For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.
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I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
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So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.
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It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.
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Sometimes its difficult to accept, to recognise ones own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.
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Because in the New Normal you are more worried about the return of your capital, not return on your capital.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
