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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: statesman
Nationality: roman
Birth: 5 BC - 65 AD

Topics

Science Yourself Talent Strive Up

I'm going to do as much as I can with this life, and then I'm going to make sure to take some time off and be simple and ride my bike and hang out with friends.

Jill Scott

Life Time Ride Simple Bike Friends

My style is all to myself.

John Lee Hooker

Style Myself

There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action.

John Henrik Clarke

Action Long Place Audience Japanese

I don't think I know enough about acting to direct. You need to be a slight megalomaniac, not where you want to take over the world, but where you want to make every single decision and the buck stops with you. It's an awful lot of stress.

Matthew Goode

Decision Stress World Think Acting

I always collect a bunch of images for every film that I do, that reminds me of an essence of the character, or the time that they live in, or what they're experiencing.

Mia Wasikowska

Live Character Time Me Always Film

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

Anais Nin

Myself Fate Poverty Way Responsible

FDR's job results were, to put it politely, disturbing.

Amity Shlaes

Job Results Disturbing Were FDR Put

I feel that as long as you're honest, you have the opportunity to grow. It's when you shut down, go into denial, and try to start hiding things from yourself and others, that's when you lock in certain behaviors and attitudes that keep you stuck.

Tracy McMillan

Opportunity Yourself Start Grow You

A few actresses have all but set up shop as women of a certain age who attract younger lovers. I think of Susan Sarandon, Cameron Diaz and Isabelle Huppert.

Roger Ebert

Women Age Think Lovers Up Attract

'Arbitrary' and 'odd' are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I'm perpetually baffled by the whole thing.

Moby

Best Words Career Whole Odd Pattern

The Chinese, the African, and the European - they are all there. So the division of the Caribbean experience into being emphatically only African is absurd.

Derek Walcott

Experience Division Caribbean Absurd

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Chris Chocola

Business Congress Manufacturing Sales