Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• Heart
• May
• Evil
• Powerful
• Discipline

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• Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • People
  • Rest
  • Knew

• So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Music
  • Different
  • Look

• Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • People
  • Remember
  • I Can

• Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Song
  • Hate
  • Half

• I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Night
  • Enjoy

• Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Country
  • Corruption
  • Morals

• If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • You
  • inspirational

• We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Life
  • Funny
  • My Life

• As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Up
  • Important
  • Team

• I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Book
  • Want
  • Start

• The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • City
  • Woman
  • Sex

• I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Happy
  • Know
  • Everyone

• I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Think
  • Death
  • Transition

• You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Long
  • Think
  • Space

• This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Voice
  • Vietnam
  • Capitol

• I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations - 'Love is a flower,' 'The sky is so dark' - but comedy lives in specifics.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Music
  • Comedy
  • Serious

• John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • City
  • Thought

• The stars in the heavens sing a music, if only we had ears to hear.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Music
  • Stars
  • Sing

• My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach.

  

  Caroline Rhea
  • She
  • Mother
  • Personality

• Our first gig we played as a three-piece, we got paid $15; I got $5. But I was 12 years old, and I never had $5 at one time before," he said. Their first earnings were a cause for a celebration, so the boys traveled to Tony's in Saginaw.

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • First
  • Played
  • Celebration

• I played sports. The acting thing was just a direct blessing from the Lord, because I lost my discipline to play sports, and I had this really cool professor grab me and kind of take me under his wing, and the ball just started rolling. Another professor introduced me to my first agent, and the next thing you know, I got to start doing films.

  

  Omar Benson Miller
  • Lost
  • Cool
  • Sports

• No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Heart
  • May
  • Evil