Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.
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I grew up on films.
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A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.
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I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.
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I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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I started out doing musicals.
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For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
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Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
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People don't realize who this band is always been because we're so young, and it's hard to get over that stigma.
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
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The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
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For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow; eschewing as far as possible that hasty extemporaneous manner of writing which is the privilege of more advanced students.
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That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.
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When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue.
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If I had my way, I wouldn't do annual reviews, if I felt that everybody would be more honest about positive and negative feedback along the way. I think the annual review process is so antiquated.
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'Nothin' on You' by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I'd been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.
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My fans want me to talk to them. And even if they want to be critical, I want to hear what they've got to say.
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They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.
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It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big
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It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
