Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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My education was very tough.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
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I read every country's perspective on an issue. I also play many games like Bridge, Scrabble and Sudoku online.
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It made the most sense for us to select Sam Bowie. It was almost a no-brainer.
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I have a great love for nature. That must have started somewhere down back home, I think, because my family own one of the better known gardens in Soochow, so I played there, and I lived there, and so I must have absorbed something there. So I continue to have a great interest in nature.
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You can only live to be so old, then you gotta let go.
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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.
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I live a life where I have a huge support system, and I've been very lucky.
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My writing life has included the struggle to bring up three children. What I do three or four times a year is take myself off to a hotel room to unblock a problem.
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I think it's important to be in control of my own destiny; to a lot of people I'm just a product, so I feel it's up to me to take a keen interest in what's going on around me. After all, it's my life.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
