Joseph Addison Quotes
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.
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Africa is the future.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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I don't get sick of 'MMMBop' in any way shape or form, and I don't know why I would.
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American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
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Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
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I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
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I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.
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We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end.
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Basketball is sharing.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
