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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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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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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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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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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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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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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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
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In an inconspicuous way, Gretchen Parlato knows how to play the same instrument that Frank Sinatra played. There's no one out there like Gretchen.
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From experience, I came to learn that ayahuasca bestows upon the user knowledge about a variety of topics, not only consciousness and perception, but also leads one to realize that what we perceive is an illusion.
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My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.
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As you take leave of [your school], as you graduate into a new life of the mind, may each of you ask yourself this: What am I doing to increase the sum hope of the world? ... What am I doing to teach someone else what I have learned?
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I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.
