Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.
Lady Gaga -
And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
Halle Berry -
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.
Calvin Klein -
I was the one who was always calling people.
Nancy Reagan -
My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.
Jackie Collins
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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.
Damien Hirst -
If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
Eden Phillpotts -
I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer.
Laura Slade Wiggins -
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.
Jack Ma -
All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different.
Pat Nixon
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I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.
Harold Ramis -
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'.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
Isaac D'Israeli -
I'll be dead and you'll think about this day and wonder which of us was more the slave, you or me!
Orson Scott Card -
George Bush is just as much in the dark as I am, and it scares me.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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'Darling,' she drawled, 'won’t that be rather tiresome? If any misfortunes happen to my friends I always drop them at once! It sounds heartless, but it saves such a lot of trouble later!'
Agatha Christie -
Who knows why some satellites come by and by while others disappear into the sky.
Ben Folds -
Cinema ceases to be passive and becomes active: you, the audience, are now, in some senses, in charge of the filmmaking process. You have all got mobile phones, you have all got cam recorders, and you've all got laptops, so you're all filmmakers.
Peter Greenaway -
Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.
Jamie Foxx -
I'm going to let my friends in the other parties fight over the turf at the cutting edge of the status quo.
Elizabeth May -
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca