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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There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.
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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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...no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.
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It is necessary to show that there is nothing so little known as the above rules, nothing more difficult to practice, or nothing more useful and universal.
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What I can say that's different in American television... in Britain, they wouldn't cancel something after a couple of episodes. In the States they would. They would just decide it's not working, take it off and put something else in on the fall schedule.
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On the job of the U.S. President and the need of good advisers and staff
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We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.
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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.
