Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.
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There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France.
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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself.
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We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.
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Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.
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I get no satisfaction just showing myself in every corner of the world every week.
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My dad loves to eat, and he loves everything I make!
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My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no was around I'd kiss the screen.
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Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.
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Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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If we start talking about we and us, just think of how many things can actually take place and change in the world.
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The easy way is efficacious and speedy, the hard way arduous and long. But, as the clock ticks, the easy way becomes harder and the hard way becomes easier. And as the calendar records the years, it becomes increasingly evident that the easy way rests hazardously upon shifting sands, whereas the hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away.
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I hate luxury. I exercise moderation…It will be easy to forget your vision and purpose one you have fine clothes, fast horses and beautiful women. [In which case], you will be no better than a slave, and you will surely lose everything.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
