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.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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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.
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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.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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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.
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I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.
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I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not!
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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.
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I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.
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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.
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Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.
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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.
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The land of scholars and the nurse of arms.
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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.
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Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte.
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...and he is as eitherhanded as a spider,...
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If I have an audience, I'd like to make music for my whole life. But it's not really up to me.
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I started over again with an image: Nothing goes right. Then when The Godfather came out, all I heard was, Show respect. With me, you show respect. So I changed the image to I don't get no respect. I tried it out in Greenwich Village. I remember the first joke I told: Even as a kid, I'd play hide and seek and the other kids wouldn't even look for me. The people laughed. After the show, they started saying to me, Me, too - I don't get no respect. I figured, let's try it again.
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The way I see it, Messi is the best player in history. He is the one who changes the course of games; he's the best. There is no comparison in my view; he's the world number one and by a margin.
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What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.
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And now that I don't want to own anything any more and am free, now I suddenly own everything, now my inner riches are immeasurable.
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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
