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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My mom's a children's television writer, so I was involved and around from a very young age. When I was eight, I did my first film with Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown, who are a quite well-respected Australian producer-director duo, and that just changed my whole perspective on what I could do in life and be.
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The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.
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I just grew the hair on my back. Facial hair just wasn't appealing to me. I liked it on my back, though.
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For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.
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Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
