Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.
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Men are irrelevant.
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Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison wrote not only the United States Constitution, or at least most of it, but also the most searching commentary on it that has ever appeared. Each of them served as president of the United States for eight years. What they had to say to each other has to command attention.
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I can't stand recipes that don't have background.
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I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people's success, especially if he had something to do with it.
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Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.
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It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.
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There are some fantastic parts for older actors.
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I didn't have a very religious family.
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Yes, let the Angel blow! A peal from the parted heaven, The first of seven!- The warning, not yet the sign, of woe! That men arise And look about them with wakened eyes, Behold on their garments the dust and slime, Refrain, forbear, Accept the weight of a nobler care And take reproach from the fallen time!
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Her mother called to her. She said, 'Where are you going, Flora Belle?' Flora didn't answer her. She never answered her mother when she called her Flora Belle. Sometimes she didn't answer her mother when she called her Flora either.
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Desolation Island (1979)
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I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.
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Piety is not an end but a means to attain by the greatest peace of mind the highest degree of culture.
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A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath.
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I recall the months and years I spent as the intimate of someone whose affections have now faded like cherry blossoms scattering even before a wind blew.
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You don't get a script sent to you for two years, it crosses your mind, 'Gee, what's going on?' Then five years pass, and pretty soon a decade has gone by. Finally, you say to yourself, 'Well, if in fact that's it, then let me be happy with 30 pictures that made about $460 million and pictures that made a lot of people laugh.'
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A lot of what Groupon is generating is demand for something people didn't know they wanted.
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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
