Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

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• I'm a good Catholic boy.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
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• As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.

  

  Ted Sarandos
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• I would love to work with Anthony Hopkins; I would love to work with Meryl Streep; I would love to work with DeNiro; I would love to work with Johnny Depp; I'd love to work with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow... I think she's amazing.

  

  Tara Reid
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• Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?

  

  Tamara Tunie
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• Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.

  

  Edmund Phelps
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• A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.

  

  Sai Baba
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• Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

  

  Wallace Stevens
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• I started out doing musicals.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Doing
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• I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.

  

  Larry King
  • Up
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• I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket without any rules.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Play
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• Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason we came to this world? The more focus we have on the front end, the less focus we end up needing on the back end.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
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• It's so fun to play a villain. I get to tap into a side of myself I thought I never had.

  

  Abbie Cobb
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• As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.

  

  Rachel Roy
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• Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.

  

  Cameron Crowe
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• I never got the opportunity to be romantic or feel romantic with anyone.

  

  Gary Coleman
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• The devil has been painted swarthy, cloven-footed, horned, and hideous. Do we expect to see him in that shape? O, surely it would be better for us, if he did come in that shape! The trouble is the devil never does come in that shape. He comes by chance, with unregistered signals, and in all sorts of counterfeit presentiments.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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• My relationship with Tiger is centered around our children, and we are doing really good - we really are - and I am so happy that is the case. He is a great father.

  

  Elin Nordegren
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• I solemnly declare that this spiritual kingdom of faith will move forward with or without each of us individually. No unhallowed hand can stay the growth of the Church nor prevent fulfillment of its mission. Any of us can be left behind, drawn away by the seductive voices of secularism and materialism.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Faith
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• I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Remember
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• My mom had me at 16 and took me every place she went. I remember going on peace marches. She tried to take me to Woodstock - it was pouring rain. It was on my birthday, and I was crying so much in the car they turned the car around and dumped me at my grandmother's house... I had a little attitude.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • She
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• Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Remember
  • Pain
  • Quality