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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Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.
Saint Augustine -
We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.
Abdallah Salem el-Badri -
The last member of the party to disembark was a girl of about nineteen, and it was the young man who stood at the boat's prow to lift her high and dry upon land. She gave him a brave and pretty smile of thanks, but no words passed between them.
Edgar Rice Burroughs -
It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
Annie Leibovitz -
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
Salman Rushdie -
I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.
Seneca the Younger