Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
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Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
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I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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It fits my ADD, so that's good. Because I really can't focus on anything for too long. And 'Top Gear's really the easiest thing to do because I'm with my pals. It's like coming home with my friends. We're having so much fun making the show.
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
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I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.
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There were pockets of this career - whatever you want to call it - where I said, 'I've tapped out. I don't want to do this. I'm gonna go be a stage hand. I don't want to do this. I don't want to talk to people. I'm afraid of people. I'm going to walk away from everything that this was and is.'
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Even if I wrote 'The Kay Cannon Show,' I would have to audition to play Kay Cannon. And I probably wouldn't get it.
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When you think positive, good things happen.
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God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That's our job. Raising children and helping the community, that's preparing for the next generation.
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Part of why history is so important in my life is because it brings you an awareness that everything isn't new. It gives context to what's happening right now. History is cyclical but circumstances and technology change. So when social justice topics come up, they're not new. They're just being covered more. We have more ways to record it now.
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The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
