Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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When man possesses a good, sound body that does not overpower him nor disturb the equilibrium in him, he possesses a divine gift. In short, a good constitution facilitates the rule of the soul over the body, but it is not impossible to conquer a bad constitution by training.
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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I am a very selfish person.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.
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If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.
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A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.
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I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.
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I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.
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Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
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Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.
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Good Viking genes, being vegetarian and having rowdy dogs and kids definitely keep me in shape. Not eating meat gives me the energy I need to keep up with work, family and travel - I'm very active.
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I have never voted a party line. I vote on the individual and the issues.
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In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
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Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.
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Regarding 'Ferris Bueller,' I was in the Czech Republic once, in Prague, making a movie at the same time as Jeffrey Jones, who played the principal, who was making a different movie. The Super Bowl was going to be playing at this bar at midnight, so we decided we would go watch the Super Bowl at this bar at midnight in Prague together.
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I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.
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It's easy to be beautiful - just be born that way.
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The more normal it gets for people to see people of a gender or skin tone they wouldn't expect in jobs that they wouldn't expect, or speaking a way they wouldn't expect them to, the more it cultivates a sense that we share more than separates us.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
