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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You are never, ever gonna get a drummer to dis another one. It's part of the drumming rules, as important as being able to keep pace or smashing up hotel rooms. Drummers do not dis!
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It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction.
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I like to use a bit of chaos when I shoot. I think it may be something from the way I shot my first film - I was very scared, of course, and I prepared everything, I wanted to make sure that the characters did the right thing at the right time on the storyboard. But then I realised that in life, there is so much more than what you can predict or write in advance, that when you shoot the story, it's good to leave some gaps where you lose control. I think this combination of chaos and organisation gives a kind of quality.
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The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.
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Well, I'm proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest.
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
