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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I think films are about having a good time, so I don't know that there's a message. The message of a film is always what a critic writes, and the fun of a film or the emotion of a film is what the audience feels.
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It is part of God's plan for us that Christ shall come to us in everyone; it is in their particular role that we must learn to know him. He may come as a little child, making enormous demands, giving enormous consolation. He may come as a stranger, so that we must give the hospitality to a stranger that we should like to give to Christ.
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Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again.
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Every time I work with real Southern actors... we immediately go into white trash, and we just get along really well within one night, you know.
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We are always looking to the future; the present does not satisfy us. Our ideal, whatever it may be, lies further on.
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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
