Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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China has become a major presence for most countries around the world but notably for its neighboring countries in Asia. So I think it is a common position for Japan and its Asian neighbors that we certainly would strive to maintain as much as possible friendly relations with China.
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I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.
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We can choose food that doesn't lead to illnesses like diabetes and cancer. We can choose food that doesn't contribute to water pollution and climate change. And we can choose food that keeps local economies vibrant and farmers on their land.
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I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.
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Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.
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As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.
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There have been failures in the past, and I know there will be in future as well. But I have learnt from them.
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I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.
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There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!
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We need to work to keep from getting rusty.
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The frivolous work of polished idleness.
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I have been in situations where actors are treated like robots: say the lines, say it like this, we don't have time for conversations. That is a terrible position to be in as an artist. You feel used.
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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
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My father could talk about the Romany way of life and its culture. He could talk about freedom and the Scottish spirit. But that was all he could talk about. I was desperate for someone to talk to but there was just nobody there.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
