Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
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One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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Everything I say is true.
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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The whole thing about working in front of the camera is to make people laugh when they're not supposed to.
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It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash and burn.
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The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.
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That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
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The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where five Canadian provinces surround him, for the most part invisible... to enter Canada is a matter of being silently swallowed by an alien continent.
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
