Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.

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• I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Kids
  • Passion
  • Fire

• Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Friend
  • Best
  • Wife

• I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Work
  • Live
  • Present

• I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Character
  • Dream
  • Play

• Act because you love to act.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Love
  • You
  • Act

• As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Remember
  • Forever
  • I Can

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Achieve
  • Anger
  • Apology

• 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.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Proud
  • Actor
  • Working

• It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Joy
  • Pleasure
  • Confused

• I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Think
  • Best

• I don't like writing with real people in mind.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mind

• When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Done
  • Career
  • Want

• You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • Start
  • Risks

• If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

  

  Imran Khan
  • House
  • You
  • Fire

• For a while, I thought that I was only going to be cast in Second World War films.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • World
  • War
  • Thought

• It's Teach For America's responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Responsibility
  • Opinion

• Pioneer women were very tough - they had to be, because the men go off for long periods of time, and the women would have to be able to protect themselves and their homes.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• Nowadays, it's like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn't have to think about it, the road and recording.

  

  Bootsy Collins
  • Different
  • Road

• I'm tall in Sweden, but I'm huge in Hollywood.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard

• It's always great when you're really needed.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Great
  • You
  • Always

• Maybe by color, maybe by number, maybe something else.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Color
  • Number
  • Maybe

• Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren't up to scratch.

  

  Will Self
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Serious

• We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Perfect
  • Born
  • Liberty