Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.
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I love India so much. It's sort of the most chaotic but also disciplined place at the same time. Every time I go there, I feel like I'm ready to rock and roll.
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The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating, which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion.
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I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
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Most of the people at my headline shows are in their 20s, but it varies a ton: like, I've had a six-year-old hug my leg after the show and a 60-year-old shake my hand. It's cool to see people connecting with the music across different generations.
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I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.
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It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle.
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I got involved in music because I love everything about it, but now I'm in it you see the other side and it isn't much fun. Not as glamorous and enjoyable as you imagine.
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I grew up in Louisiana. We have red beans and rice, and there's a Popeye's on every corner.
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No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.
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You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.
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As long as we have the possibility then we still have to fight for it.
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After me, everybody started drafting speed. But they used to laugh at a lot of those guys because they couldn't catch. Otto Graham once said that I had 9.1 speed and 12-flat hands, but I proved him wrong. I was the leader of the pack.
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I used to play trumpet when I was a kid, and then I got braces, and I couldn't really play it anymore, so sometimes I wish I could still play that; I think it's a great instrument, so maybe one of these days I'll pick it back up.
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People think 'big data' avoids the problem of discrimination because you are dealing with big data sets, but, in fact, big data is being used for more and more precise forms of discrimination - a form of data redlining.
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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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See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
