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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I would like to work with Todd Phillips of 'The Hangover'. I would like to do more comedies; it would be a lot of fun. No actors in particular. I don't consciously seek out things to do.
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The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way.
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We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.
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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
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The world is all about mind and matter; I don't mind and you don't matter.
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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.
