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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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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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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Some people say I was a thug and a gangster; other people remember me as a poet and a born leader. But I'm saying to you, measure a man by his actions fully, through his whole life, from the beginning to the end.
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You ask a faith, - they are content with faith; You ask to have, - but they reply 'IT hath.' There is no end, there need be no path.
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The problem - when you cast your net that wide - is you inevitably catch something you don't want to catch.
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The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
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I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.
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I don't want everybody to just see the baseball side of me.
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All that passes under our eyes proves that we do not live in a peaceful and harmonious world.
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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
