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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In a nutshell though, it's just all about opening up to the people that really care about my career and really listening to everybody who is listening to me. It's just made me stronger, to really be able to open up that door and listen to everybody else's opinions.
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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 made a big family when I was working at 'Vogue' for ten years, and I'm still friends with a lot of them.
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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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It's a great privilege and an honour to have the experiences and opportunities that I do to meet extraordinary Australians right across our country who share a great generosity of spirit.
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You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
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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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If one is satisfied with things, one doesn't complain about the downsides that exist, either.
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I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter.
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The three C's of leadership are Consideration,Caring,and Courtesy.Be polite to everyone.
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What constitutes a state? . . . . . . . Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain. . . . . . . . And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
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I had a great time at Oxford, got a wonderful, wonderful education there.
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
