Joseph Addison Quotes
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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We work a lot, and we have a lot of discipline because we are really tired that people know Colombia as a violent country. We just want to change that face of the country, and the music that we're doing is the music that people want, that people love.
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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After all, as a taxpayer, if I'm acting as the insurer against losses, I should have the right to say what risks the insured can take.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
