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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I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
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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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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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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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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
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Most of my cliches aren't original.
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Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.
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Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get things done.
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The deep, seen with depth, is surface.
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I learned from Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, the Nicholas Brothers, the whole thing, the whole schmear. [The Cotton Club] was a great place because it hired us, for one thing, at a time when it was really rough [for Black performers].
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It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
