Joseph Addison Quotes
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
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We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
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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'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.
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Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
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I think starting in anime, like I did, gave me a good idea of how to approach games that come from Japan. Japanese developers can be very different from companies here in the western market.
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Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.
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If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.
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I watched a little girl cover her face up and leave her hands in front of her mouth. I saw that girl after surgery, and she was smiling... that's a great source of satisfaction.
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In the presence of your own loving attention, you create the inner conditions that are necessary to step into the next greatest evolution of yourself.
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I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.
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You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going.
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
