Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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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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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 think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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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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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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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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Women in my world are respected as much as men.
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I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Sometimes shows get into their 5th and 6th season and you're like, where can you go? But 'Dexter' is still so strong, it's really refreshing.
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While I wouldn't wish being teased on anyone, I think it eventually leads to a kind of solidarity in adult life. The few people I know who weren't picked on in school are people I find I can't relate to on much more than a surface level. There's a sensitivity that comes with feeling like an outsider at some point in your life.
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Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
