Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
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The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court – that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems.
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I think that's a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions.
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If it hadn't worked out professionally, I would be teaching music theory and composition in a small college somewhere and playing drums in a jazz trio at the Holiday Inn on weekends, and I'd be happy there, too.
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I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I've built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I've improved as a dancer.
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If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
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All men are ignorant, just in different fields.
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The child shall become father to the man.
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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
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People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.
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The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
