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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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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I think some people forget sometimes I do have to go to the grocery store; I do enjoy going out to dinner. I have to get my oil changed from time to time. I do all the normal things. I cut my grass. People kind of forget that normal part, that we do a lot of the stuff that everybody else does, but we all have our talents, and mine is in football.
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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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As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.
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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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Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
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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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My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.
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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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Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton.
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We are the party of the Czechoslovak proletariat and our general headquarters are in Moscow.
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When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.
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I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul’s good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.
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Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.
