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 are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle.
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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 first time I drank LaCroix, I half expected it to be filled with self-tanner. Or Axe body spray.
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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During his time working for me, Andy has carried out his role with complete professionalism. He has been a brilliant member of my team and has thrown himself at the job with skill and dedication. He can be extremely proud of the role he has played, including for the last eight months in Government.
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And just as your beautiful skyscrapers were destroyed and caused your grief, beautiful buildings and precious homes crumbled over their owners in Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq by American weapons.... Americans should feel the pain they have inflicted on other peoples of the world, so as when they suffer, they will find the right solution and the right path.
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I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.
