Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.
Quotes to Explore
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I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.
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Funny is an attitude.
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There is no doubt whatsoever that the universe is the merest illusion.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.
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Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.
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I don't concern myself too much about calories and fat.
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I don't even think my children are aware of what I've done. When somebody will ask me for my autograph, Spenser-Margaret will say, 'You must watch 'Charlie's Angels.' You know, that's like all I've done to them.
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I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.
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My father loved antique shops and shows, and quite a bit of my childhood involved outings to dim, dusty places packed with cast-off treasures.
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We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
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We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.
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Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But it is also full of loss - of jobs, of the dignity of steady work, of chances to rise.
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To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.
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I shall, of course, die with nonviolence on my lips.
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By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
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Rules with an iron fist, but sometimes in that fist is a rose.
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Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.
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He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.
