Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
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In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing.
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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
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If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.
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We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
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Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.
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I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.
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Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.
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Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play.
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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
