Joseph Addison Quotes
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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
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I don't really enjoy working in TV, to be completely honest. Even though it's incredibly lucrative, I'm just terrified of not being satiated in a myriad of different ways.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps.
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I interned for the Knicks for one year doing community relations, but I absolutely hated it. It was a desk job, and the team was not good at all, and I didn't realize how much that correlated to the office. It was just gray, gloomy days.
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Caffeine. The gateway drug.
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I don't think I'm ugly, but I never thought I was that special.
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People ask me 'Why you want to do another magazine - 10 years at 'Vogue,' a great magazine? Why do you want to make a new one? It's so difficult and there's already so many.' I wanted to do something new, bring a new vision.
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Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, "If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?" "Why, it stays with me, of course," the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, "And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse," he said. "I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you."
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All cell phones in the air 'cause I want to see you guys shine.
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If you have a faith, if you've some deep conviction, whether you're a Nazi or a Communist or what the hell else you are - then you can sacrifice yourself and others to your faith. But from the moment you've no faith - from that moment you live in a deep inner confusion - from then on you're exposed to what Strindberg calls 'the powers'.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
