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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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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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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In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.
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I drive a Nissan Versa and would never spend real money on a car because I destroy things.
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It's a juicy thing to say we're building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it's so clearly the wrong strategy for us.
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I hate thinking about writer's block! I don't have writer's block much, knock on wood, but if I do, I think it's usually because I haven't done enough research and am therefore unable to create a fully realized world.
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I thought I was in loveA couple of times beforeWith the girl next door.But that was long before I met you.Now I'm sure that I won't forget you.And I thank my lucky starsThat you are who you are.And not just another lovely ladySent down to break my heart.
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The saddest fact of climate change - and the chief reason we should be concerned about finding a proper response - is that the countries it will hit hardest are already among the poorest and most long-suffering.
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The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.
