Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
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Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.
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As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
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Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
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Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
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I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
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The general market wants what I do.
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Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them.
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Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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My death scene in 'The Salton Sea' is really weird. I mean, I get shot in the head. What experience can you possibly draw from? There's nothing you can compare it to, really.
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Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the entire song. It doesn't need it. 'A Day In the Life' has gorgeous fills, but there, the song needs it. When I play on any record, I'm striving to get where Ringo is. You play what doesn't take you out of the song.
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I didn't say that. I don't know who told him that.
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When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.
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The entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind's eye must turn so that we can discover some truth.
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They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other.
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Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.
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Necessity is stronger than duty.
