Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I get homesick.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
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I remember Tom Stoppard saying to me when I came out, 'I feel so sorry for you, because you'll never have children.' These days I would say, 'Well, why not, Tom?'
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I think the way to be an influential journalist is to be accurate and to be fair and to get things right and to really characterize things in an honest way, versus being really snarky or cheerleading.
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If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.
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If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science, we'd all think he'd gone 'round the bend. We don't need to do that sort of thing anymore, we'd say. We have better, kinder ways.
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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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Helpmate, n. A wife, or bitter half.
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Insurrection, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
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It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years.
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I go onstage and I talk, and I remember what I'm saying, and I track it.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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That is how I would have acted before my accident, but now my personal history had become unimportant. It had stopped being history and was once more becoming a legend, a search, an adventure, a journey into and away from myself. I was once more in a time which the things around me were changing and that is how I wanted it to be for the rest of my days.
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Living in New Zealand, it's like a different world - it is a different world. It's very, very cool.
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Acting-wise, it's always exciting to come back for a third season of any TV show that you're working on.
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The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.
