Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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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.
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
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Life is a dead-end street.
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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.
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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.
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My songs are about who I am.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.
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I'm very hard on my bags because I tend to carry a lot of stuff with me.
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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.
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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.
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'Sometimes, Skorous,' Draco said, 'you are a fool.''Sometimes I am not alone in that.'
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The agitator must stand outside of organizations, with no bread to earn, no candidate to elect, no party to save, no object but truth - to tear a question open and riddle it with light.
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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.
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If I can go three grandmothers back and find a slave, that means someone else can go three grandmothers back and find a slave owner. When you interrogate your histories, it forces you to rethink who you are and where you are.
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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I've hurt people unnecessarily when it was about my own insecurities. But you have to make those mistakes to become a better person.
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If you’re going through a dark time... don’t ever give up. You can always make your way back to the other end of that circle and find your happiness again.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
