Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of it. They're sort of commenting as they're playing the character. I think it's hard not to do that. I've certainly done that.
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I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.
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Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.
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Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.
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But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.
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That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.
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Its okay I'm wearing really big knickers.
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The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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The undiscovered is not far away. It's not something to be found eventually. It is contained within what is right in front of us. The essence of reality is being born right now. It has never existed before.
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About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise impossible. It is not the sort of beard that happens to a man, it is a beard cultivated, cherished, and thrust patriarchally upon the world.
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I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren't things you know about until you do the story.
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Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.
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I love karaoke; you have to wail when you do karaoke.
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There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color – nothing – no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We're all deserving of love.
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We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
