Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Think and grow rich.
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God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem to be ending up. I hope this term 'street artist' falls from the face of the earth, in my honest opinion.
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We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
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When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'
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When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
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I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.
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The thing that 'Annie' means to me is that it is good to always be strong, and if you have a goal, go for it, and if there is something in your way, just go around and find your path again, and go for your goal.
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After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
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Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.
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When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else.
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The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.
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Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought.
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Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
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I want to help create the world's first global currency built on the Internet and built on open platforms and standards such as Bitcoin, and I want to build a financial services institution on top of that. That's what I'm doing with Circle.
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I enjoy roles that are quite physical.
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You don't have to be in the power business to be a powerful woman.
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Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.
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Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride
