Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
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I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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There is always pressure in football.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Novels are longer than life.
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Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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What I do is I do my job.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.
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Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner.
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You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.
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I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.
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It's always best to challenge yourself and go to a place out of your comfort zone.
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I started moving towards Serbia when I felt my country, Yugoslavia, was being taken away from me. My feeling of nationality was not as strong as those around me who were attaching themselves to these absurd new entities.
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Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you.
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I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.
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Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.
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To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
