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.
Kage Baker -
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.
Mamata Banerjee -
Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
Harriet Van Horne -
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.
Rachel Kushner -
It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
Umberto Eco -
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.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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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.
Patricia Hill Collins -
As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova -
To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
Carly Fiorina -
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
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.
Sally Schneider -
My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
Bar Refaeli
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
Dalai Lama -
I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
Kate Morton -
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.
Hank Azaria -
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.
Yu Chui Yee -
If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
Rachel Sklar -
Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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I'm very quiet off stage.
Cilla Black -
We have to support truth and reconciliation and some form of justice.
Joshua Oppenheimer -
Living the dream is simply a form of living out your passion, of making that passion gradually, through persistence and effort, a central part of your life.
Urijah Christopher Faber -
GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.
Jack Dangermond -
Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival.
Tariq Ramadan -
I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.
Seneca the Younger