Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.
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I've played quite a large spectrum of teenaged girls, from psychotic to very sweet to a polygamist.
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The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
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The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per cent took 59 per cent.
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There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.
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We gotta figure out a way to pay our teachers more. They're like surrogate parents away from home. They have such a huge responsibility and they're underappreciated and underpaid.
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The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on yours.
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There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.
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Where everybody is guilty, nobody is.
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Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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We are all shades of gray. Its been said again and again; Lifes a process we are fleeting moments that come and go, and I'm grateful for my time, my aspirations, my mistakes, my flaws and my abilities, think of me what you will but before you do, don't.
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WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching, Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving. No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening, Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing, Fulfilling our foray.
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Serious drama in a significant degree began at Harvard in the 1880s. In 1881, the Cercle Francais initiated the annual French play, and shortly afterwards the German and Spanish clubs added their productions.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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It [live performance] is just very difficult. Doing an hour, hour and a half of live standup is an endurance test. You almost have to do it every day to stay up on it.
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I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling up the air with words
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Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
