Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
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Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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The minute I get into a hotel room, I scatter my stuff everywhere. It's like a bomb site within a minute. So I suppose that means I'm trying to nest.
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In Chicago, they die for their teams.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.
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I gave a Christmas party last year - well, two Christmases ago - where I did a Sam Cooke show. I didn't perform as R. Kelly. I performed the Sam Cooke show from 1964, when he performed at the Copacabana.
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Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.
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All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
