Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West.
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
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There are no ordinary moments.
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Sometimes you usually know the point where to keep your mouth shut.
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Resist. Come, you’re tough enough, my lady, aren’t you, if you beg for death rather than inflict evil?
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Say not the struggle nought availeth,The labour and the wounds are vain,The enemy faints not, nor faileth,And as things have been, things remain.
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I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.
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Imagination comes of not having things.
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I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.
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My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.
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'I've heard assorted rhapsodies about humankind going to the stars, of course. Who hasn't? Each of them founders on the practical problems.' 'The fish that first ventured ashore had considerable practical problems.'
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Child rearing is an art, and what makes art art is that it is doing several things at once.
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Life is short and art is long.
