Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
Van Morrison
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I think that there's always room for humour in music. It's something that always takes itself so seriously, which I think is a bit of a shame.
Kate Bush
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
Abu Bakr
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Life is a dead-end street.
H. L. Mencken
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What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected little bubble. That's living the dream.
Eddie Redmayne
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I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
Pat Metheny
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My songs are about who I am.
Carlene Carter
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OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Rex Ryan is definitely a very confident individual and, when you have someone who believes firmly in what he's speaking, you naturally absorb it.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.
Sam Shepard
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And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids.
Olga Korbut
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I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.
Bai Ling
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I'm very hard on my bags because I tend to carry a lot of stuff with me.
Laura Linney
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Every now and then I get angry, but fortunately, when I do, it's like watching a little dog try to attack something - it's something I'm not very good at.
Jack McBrayer
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The first thing I remember about the world - and I pray that it may be the last - is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which everyone has in some degree, and which is, at once, the glory and desolation of homo sapiens, provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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'Sometimes, Skorous,' Draco said, 'you are a fool.''Sometimes I am not alone in that.'
Tanith Lee
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The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning. The opposite of a Greek drama. Act one: Greed and hypocrisy leading to a genocidal world war, a boom, a crash, totalitarianism. Act two: Greed and hypocrisy leading to a genocidal world war, a boom, a crash, totalitarianism. Act three: Greed and hypocrisy … I don't dare continue.
Leonard Bernstein
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The Webbs are really gone! When I saw the waggons at the door, and thought of all the trouble they must have in moving, I began to reproach myself for not having liked them better, but since the waggons have disappeared my conscience has been closed again, and I am excessively glad they are gone.
Jane Austen
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People are most important.
Lech Walesa
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Anger is the first step toward emotional healing.
Victoria Secunda
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I just like the themes it's exploring. In the way my character says, 'I want us to become brothers again, like we used to be.' I really like that line, and it means a lot to me. I just find there's a lot of things like that in this movie that have that feeling. There's stuff that feels exhilarating.
Owen Wilson
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The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
Charles Duhigg
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One theory is that we will make war look so attractive that we undermine the deterrent. That's Never Never Land. What we have now would have been enough to deter Hitler. But we are talking in a different order of reality.
Henry Kissinger
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If you wish to be loved, love.
Seneca the Younger