Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.
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I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.
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Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
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Let us learn from the lessons of September 11 and not wait for a major strike before we act. We must work together - Democrats and Republicans, Congress and the White House, government and the private sector - to make our country a safer and more prosperous place.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.
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Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
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To be silent is to be passive.
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There are two kinds of serial killers as far as the victim is concerned: the kind that you don't see before they pounce on you and the kind you see and don't expect to pounce on you.
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Nazism promoted Germany from a low to a fantastic physical and ideological status.
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I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.
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I always doodled as a kid while I was talking on the phone or watching TV.
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We're finding a third way for biologists to change the world. It's very hard to change the world when the only directions available in biology are academia and the pharmaceutical industry.
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There is not a country on earth that could get its fiscal house in order by shrinking opportunity and depressing growth.
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I believe, and always have, that America must engage - not retreat - in the world.
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When you're young, you tend to believe what people tell you, and that's dangerous. As you get older, you learn that you're never as good or as bad as they say you are. If you understand this, you win.
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It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
