Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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I had no idea who I was when I started. I was frightened to death and had no natural performing skills.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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When I was in my teenage years, I went to sign up as a cadet entrant to the police force but was at the very last moment rejected, just as I was about to sign my name on the dotted line. I won't get into why that happened, but it was a moment where it could've been predetermined then that I was off to become a policeman.
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I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that.
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The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to act to try and solve them.
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
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These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.
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It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.
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The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.
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May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.
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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
