Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
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As with any moderately famous person, footballers are the source of much gossip. In fact, I'd go as far as to say they are targeted. The fun part as their partner is not knowing who, or what, to believe.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
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I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me. I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.
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So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.
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Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
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If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.
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I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
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Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.
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There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.
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But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.
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Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
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I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
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To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
