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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True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself.
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...nuclear threats and nuclear weapons are the last argument of weak, stressed and irresponsible politicians. People must act very quicky to stop the movement to nuclear war.
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As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
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If you make a mistake, don’t spend precious time and energy trying to deny it or point the finger at someone else. Be a leader and own it, then spend your time and energy fixing the problem. As I’ve already noted, start-ups often fail because founders want to be seen as the smartest person in the room, which means not being wrong. Making a mistake is going to happen. None of us is perfect. But the difference between success and failure is how you handle that mistake.
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It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
