Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.
Campbell Scott
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Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
J. Irwin Miller
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When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.
Orhan Pamuk
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Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
Edmund Morgan
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From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.
Carl Hiaasen
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My plan was to go to New York and do some theatre, and then I got the script for 'Psych.' I was like, 'Ahh - just as I thought I was out, you pulled me back in!' I had a great meeting with the show creator and we laid out the parameters to make the show work: what I would do, what he would let me do.
James Roday
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I like a woman with priorities.
Kyan Douglas
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It depends on what your goals are, your career goals, and what the organization values. Salaries do increase with levels of education. ... There's certainly value in terms of networking with other people in your programs.
Chris Wallace
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How often we should stop in the pursuit of folly, if it were not for the difficulties that continually beckon us onwards.
Arthur Helps
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In the weightiest matters we must go to school to the animals, and learn spinning and weaving from the spider, building from the swallow, singing from the birds,-from the swan and the nightingale, imitating their art.
Democritus
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca