Joseph Addison Quotes
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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I'm starting to find my own style.
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I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
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'A Different World' didn't have the blazing success that 'Cosby' had, but it was on for seven seasons, and we got a lot of awards, and a lot of faces came out of that show and have had great careers.
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I feel like I am a lot of who I am because I watched these shows that said it was okay to be a total weirdo. Shows like 'Pete and Pete,' 'Hey, Dude,' 'Salute Your Shorts' - that's what I grew up with.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.
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As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.
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Things have changed a lot since the earth was cooling and I was a teenage girl, but the basics of teenage bedrooms have remained the same. Every girl wants a place that they are proud to call their own and where they can express their own individuality.
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Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that.
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I don't want fans to think we're clean, upstanding American boys, but we are Americans, and we do stand up.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page.
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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt, but we need the science base; we need the correct science base.
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The changing of the goals helps keep the motivation fresh.
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I found fame to be somewhat of a prison. The more famous you were, the smaller the cell that you had to live in.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
