Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
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It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.
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I was the one who was always calling people.
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My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.
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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
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If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer.
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I'm humble 'cause I think many years ago people say, 'Well, Alibaba's terrible company'. And I know we were not that terrible. We're pretty good; we're better than people thought. But today, when people have a high expectation on you, and I start to worry and nervous because we are not good yet.
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All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different.
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I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.
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In law it is a good policy never to plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you cannot.
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Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: 'Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life'.
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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
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I'll be dead and you'll think about this day and wonder which of us was more the slave, you or me!
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George Bush is just as much in the dark as I am, and it scares me.
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Had I not gone to Japan in 1986, had I stayed home and majored in English literature as I'd intended to do, I might indeed have become an investment banker, an outcome that perhaps would have proved a more severe blow to the health of the U.S. economy than to the history of the novel.
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Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
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I think advice is cheap. You can only really learn by doing and making mistakes.
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And I agree that the Democratic legislators in Massachusetts might have given some advice to Republicans in Congress about how to cooperate, but the fact of the matter is we used the same advisers and they say it's the same plan.
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What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
