Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Quotes to Explore
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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He was born in 1741, a descendant of the Rhode Island equivalent of royalty. The first Benedict Arnold had been one of the colony's founders, and subsequent generations had helped to establish the Arnolds as solid and respected citizens.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.
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Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.
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Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.
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I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.
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Language is fun; it's fun to try.
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If you're hungry, you know that you want to eat. You don't know what's on the menu - perhaps it's not your favorite dish - but you will eat.
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What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.
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I'm a workaholic.
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That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one be a penny the stupider.
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The harsh reality is this: to have influence in the world, you need to be willing and able to reward your friends and punish your enemies.
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The older you get, the better you get. The key is just keeping the body up with the mind. The mind keeps developing when the body is breaking down.
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It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you.
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I understand that not everyone agrees with my perspective on Ray Kelly. But what you gotta look at here is somebody like Bill de Blasio talking out of both sides of his mouth and trying to have it both ways on a really critical issue like stop-and-frisk.
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
