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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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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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
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You, your employer and your plan's investment managers fail to follow even the most basic rules of investing. You overtrade, chase performance, do not think long term. All of you - All Of You - have done a horrible job managing your retirement plans.
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Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact.
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..the wind of 'art brut' blows on writing as well as on other avenues of artistic creation.
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Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.
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Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody.
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Even someone who works with me, like this girl who works with me, her name is Sue. She lives with me and holds the fort; she takes care of all these little things. She takes care of the money situation, and I would not be able to live without someone like that.
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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
