Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.
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I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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I always liked parties. You meet people; you can have fun.
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
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As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.
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I am extremely lucky, and I enjoy the level of work that I am able to work at.
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There are no fields of amaranth on this side of the grave: there are no voices, O Rhodopè! that are not soon mute, however tuneful: there is no name, with whatever emphasis of passionate love repeated, of which the echo is not faint at last.
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Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.
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Put not your trust in princes.
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As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.
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With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
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Great visual effects serve story and character and in doing so, are, by their very definition, invisible.
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I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist’s hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.
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Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.
