Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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Our party, I can tell you, is very transparent; we believe in our credentials. Our credentials are our only credibility; we are not going to compromise on that; we are the commoners.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
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You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.
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I think the most important thing for your life is the way you interpret things. Having an optimistic point of view is so important - your life will be so bright.
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If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
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The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job.
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My kids are athletic, but they don't run.
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The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.
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I hope my daughter, and one day my granddaughters, will be at Dodgers Opening Day.
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America is an open society, more open than any other in the world. People of every race, of every color, of every culture are welcomed here to create a new life for themselves and their families. And what do these people who enter into the American mainstream have in common? English, our shared common language.
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I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.
