Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.

Seneca the Younger

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• Anxiety
• Torture
• Calamity

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• The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.

  

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• I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
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• It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.

  

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• At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.

  

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• Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.

  

  Magic Johnson
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• I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

  

  Gary Dourdan
  • Always
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• A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to help launch them. And the agent is really necessary to represent all of the business interests of the author.

  

  Larry Kirshbaum
  • Business
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• I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.

  

  Young Jeezy
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• In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Black
  • Culture
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• The 'M*A*S*H' cast loves each other with unconditional love; our domestic animals love us with unconditional love.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Animals
  • Domestic
  • Unconditional

• Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Different
  • Band
  • New York

• When I was on 'Dallas,' I was known to audiences of the '80s. And then when my sons, who are in their 30s now, were going to college, 'Dallas' was the cult thing to watch because it was being done on the soap channels, so a whole new generation saw it. And then I have the young fans that knew me from 'Step By Step' in the '90s.

  

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• 'Django' was definitely the beginning of my political side, and I think 'Hateful Eight' is the... logical extension and conclusion of that. I mean, when I say conclusion, I'm not saying I'll never be political again, but, I mean, I think it's like, in a weird way, 'Django' was the question, and 'Hateful Eight' is the answer.

  

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• I think you learn something from everybody that you've worked with. I really learned how to behave on set through the people that I worked with, like the importance of being on time and the importance of being professional. I don't bring my cell phone on set; I leave it in my trailer.

  

  Dakota Fanning
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• Actually, lots of women, when they're pregnant, feel like steel. They feel incredible.

  

  Olivia Colman
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• I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.

  

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• I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

  

  Jackie Chan
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• In many ways the most dangerous aspect of undiagnosed and untreated ADD is the assault to self-esteem that usually occurs.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Dangerous
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• Except for cases of pathological incapacity, one can and must communicate, and thereby contribute in a useful and easy way to the peace of others and oneself, because silence, the absence of signals, is itself a signal, but an ambiguous one, and ambiguity generates anxiety and suspicion. To say that it is impossible to communicate is false; one always can.

  

  Primo Levi
  • Peace
  • Silence
  • Anxiety

• I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

  

  Jules Feiffer
  • Anxiety
  • Normal
  • Depressed

• Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Trouble
  • Anxiety
  • Torture