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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Israel now has a reputation around the world of being not just a place to develop products and technology but to develop ideas.
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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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You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.
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What I like about Sapphics is the music of a non-iambic metric in English.
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It's amazing what it opens up in women when you tell them you've just played a midwife.
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You can think of my films as cautionary tales, but you might even think of them as despairing tales, because at least in a cautionary tale, you have this idea that by listening to the story you can assure a better outcome. Whereas I'm not at all convinced that's the case. In fact, if anything, I'm convinced that it's the opposite.
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The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.
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See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
