Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable

Seneca the Younger

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• For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Good
  • Career
  • Actors

• As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Like
  • Years
  • Look

• A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Heart
  • Guy
  • Film

• Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Soul
  • Dreams
  • Window

• I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Think
  • See
  • Silly

• Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Want
  • Know
  • Never

• My best friend is my husband.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Friend
  • Best
  • Husband

• If you don't like what you do, you're probably dragging your feet.

  

  Victor Koo
  • You
  • Like
  • Feet

• Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Saved
  • Ours

• I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Country
  • Continue

• When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Important
  • Country
  • Strong

• With 'Transformers,' I'm going to get to drive fast cars and have a lot of fun. That's what appeals to me about it. I want to have as much fun as possible.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Cars

• I love music. I think it's a higher art form, in a way, than movies. You know, a film you see once, maybe twice. A song will follow you forever. It's a magical thing.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Music
  • Art
  • Way

• People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Why
  • Father

• Lots of people speak Afrikaans. It's not a statement; it's just a language that we use to communicate. It has its own flavour; it's got its own slang. People laugh. People like it. They like us being open.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • People
  • Language
  • Laugh

• For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Childhood
  • Short
  • Homework

• I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Never
  • More
  • Writer

• The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Agree

• I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Great
  • Family
  • Career

• Obamacare is simply incapable of doing what it is supposed to do - provide nearly universal care at an affordable and sustainable cost.

  

  Marcia Angell

• I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution.

  

  George Murray
  • City

• I wrote a spec script that people really liked: a political serial based on Jeffrey's Toobin's 'A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.' It was the first thing I had ever written with any political subject matter in it.

  

  Peter Gould
  • People
  • Political

• People ask me often [whether] the Nobel Prize [was] the thing you were aiming for all your life, and I say that would be crazy. Nobody would aim for a Nobel Prize because, if you didn't get it, your whole life would be wasted. What we were aiming at was getting people well, and the satisfaction of that is much greater than any prize you can get.

  

  Gertrude B. Elion
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Disease

• The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • People
  • Poor
  • Desirable