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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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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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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It's a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the absurdity and preposterous reality that is accepted amongst the ones who are inside.
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For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.
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After years of police work, officers often can't help but be influenced by the cynicism they feel.
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I love all the premieres and everything that goes with it, but my favourite part is being on set and to go to work and enjoy your job. Not many people can say that in life.
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
