Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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I am a very selfish person.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
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I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
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I think I'm a very intuitive actress.
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Belize pledges it continued support to the aspirations of the 23 million people of Taiwan to be full participants in all organs and agencies of the international community.
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A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.
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I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
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But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
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Life is hopefully long, so I don't know what the future will bring.
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When I got into comedy, which was really for acting, I would see the guys who would be considered great today. They were great, but after a few minutes I could get kind of bored because they wouldn't move around. The dress code was boring to me. I didn't want to see the guy next door when I'm watching a performer. I wanted to see someone I would pay a ticket for.
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You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.
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Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
