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 am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
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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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One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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'Do you promise you won't hurt me?' asked Arthur. 'You will be safe from all harm for the space of a quarter hour, as measured by this clock,' replied the Old One. 'You are mortal enough that I would not slay you like a wandering cockroach, or a Denizen of the House.' 'Thanks,' said Arthur. 'I think.'
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There are two - parallel - universes of science. One is the actual day-to-day work of scientists, patiently researching into all parts of the world and sometimes making amazing discoveries. The other is the role science plays in the public imagination - the powerful effect it has in shaping how millions of ordinary people see the world.
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The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
