Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
Pablo Picasso
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
Manny Coto
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
Uma Thurman
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
Wanda Sykes
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
Naomi Wolf
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
Abu Bakar Bashir
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
Taylor Sheridan
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I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
Abigail Washburn
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I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not!
Olivia Colman
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Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.
Victoria Woodhull
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I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.
Damon Runyon
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I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.
Raha Moharrak
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Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.
Barbra Streisand
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The Sin Washer had died centuries ago, and His legacy seemed often to be in the accumulation of connections and power more than the distribution of emotional or spiritual ease. She kept that thought to herself. Wisdom came in many forms, and silence was often the most useful.
Laura Anne Gilman
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The land of scholars and the nurse of arms.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.
Edna O'Brien
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Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We know nothing accurately in reality, but only as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon the body and impinge upon it.
Democritus
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Throughout my career, even as a very young actor, people have always said to me that they would like to see my Othello. They could see something of him in me, I suppose.
Eamonn Walker
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There's a bit of a new guard of contemporary classical musicians in New York, and we play a lot of different kinds of music together. We do pop studio sessions, and we'll also play John Cage and more avant-garde work. We're developing a language of music that comes with a lot of different styles, different kinds of work.
Caroline Shaw
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That persons have opposing interests and seek to advance their own conception of the good is not at all the same thing as their being moved by envy and jealousy.
John Rawls
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It's one thing if a politician in a small country says a little bit of torturing is good to do. There is a qualitative difference... when it's a candidate to run a superpower.
Peter Maurer
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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
Seneca the Younger