Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
What with our hooks, snares, nets, and dogs, we are at war with all living creatures, and nothing comes amiss but that which is either too cheap or too common; and all this is to gratify a fantastical palate.
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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You don't get second chances in the real world.
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People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
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Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.
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My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.
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When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.
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I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
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The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.
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We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.
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I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.
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There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.
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I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.
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I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.
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I can't walk in high heels, never mind dance in them.
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As a movie-goer, I really like to watch all different kinds of movies and, as an actor, I always feel like I could do pretty much anything but a musical.
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It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.
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I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.
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Imagine your ideal future. Visualize yourself as if your life were perfect in every respect.
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What with our hooks, snares, nets, and dogs, we are at war with all living creatures, and nothing comes amiss but that which is either too cheap or too common; and all this is to gratify a fantastical palate.
