Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
If you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live a false life that is all made up for show; for it is torturous to be constantly watching oneself and be fearful of being caught out of our usual role. And we are never free from concern if we think that every time anyone looks at us he is always taking-our measure; for many things happen that strip off our pretence against our will, and, though all this attention to self is successful, yet the life of those who live under a mask cannot be happy and without anxiety.
Quotes to Explore
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'
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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims have crushed me. I feel each blow delivered to the Muslim world as delivered first to my own heart.
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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People say they like my fashion-haul videos because it's like you've been shopping with your friends, and you look back over what you have bought.
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I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
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Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.
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I was a drummer and I played the guitar.
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How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!
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If racism is not the whole of the Tea Party, it is in its heart, along with blind hatred, a total disinterest in the welfare of others, and a full-flowered self-rationalizing refusal to accept the outcomes of elections, or the reality of democracy, or the narrowness of their minds and the equal narrowness of their public support.
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Every one should be wealthy, if only for a day, so that each might realize that be being rich is not the ideal condition that most believe it is. And like the land, we should have little need for all that silver when we cease breating. Let us enjoy the smiling faces of as many children of god as we can while we are able to see them.
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Indifference is the strongest contempt.
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I can't just sit around thinking how lucky I am.
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Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.
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If you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live a false life that is all made up for show; for it is torturous to be constantly watching oneself and be fearful of being caught out of our usual role. And we are never free from concern if we think that every time anyone looks at us he is always taking-our measure; for many things happen that strip off our pretence against our will, and, though all this attention to self is successful, yet the life of those who live under a mask cannot be happy and without anxiety.
