Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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Before I got married, I dated the gamut.
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Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
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Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything... Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days.
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Only get rid altogether of your nonsensical trash about the beautiful, which I nor anybody else, nor yourself to boot, could ever understand,-only free yourself of that, and your success in life is as sure as daylight.
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Luxury, that baneful poison, has unstrung and enfeebled her sons.
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'She loves this newt-nuzzling blister.'
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Some terror in the swishing tall grass seemed added to that of the diabolically pounding sea, and I started up crying aloud and disjointedly, 'Tiger? Tiger? Is it Tiger? Beast? Beast? Is it a Beast that I am afraid of?'
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This country … abounds in that Cuba is a heaven in the spiritual sense of the word, and we prefer to die in heaven than serve in hell.
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Who would expect it so? From darkness light is brought, Life rises out of Death, And Something comes from Naught.
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'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again. As a member of humanity and as a Muslim, this is my contribution to the call for a peaceful solution.
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When the sun appears which dispels darkness in general, you put out the light which dispelled it for you in particular for your need and convenience.
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Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fine because that's public domain. I know exactly what I'm doing when I post something on Twitter; in a way, it's saying, 'This is who I am, and I don't have anything to hide.'
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My thighs have been involved in many accidents,And now I can't get insured,And I don't need to be lured by you.My cunt is built like a wound that won't heal,And now you don't have to askBecause you know how I feel.
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I think TV shows have usurped films!
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You can practice this by taking any routine activity that normally is only a means to an end and giving it your fullest attention, so that it becomes an end in itself.
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When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure. Pastiche is a great way to start.
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Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.
