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.

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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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Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
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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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The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.
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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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The cool thing about dope black style becoming in style is that the industry has no choice but to try and reduplicate that.
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In 1922 everything changed again. The Eskimo pie was invented; James Joyce's Ulysses was printed in Paris; snow fell on Mauna Loa, Hawaii; Babe Ruth signed a three-year contract with the New York Yankees; Eugene O'Neill was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Frederick Douglass's home was dedicated as a national shrine; former heavyweight champion of the world Jack Johnson invented the wrench...
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A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.
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Even the simplest things, I'm guilty of making really bad decisions a lot of the time.
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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.