Joseph Addison Quotes
The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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I auditioned for Roosevelt in 'The Winds of War,' but Ralph Bellamy got the role.
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The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child.
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Let's get one thing straight: I am not an adrenaline junkie. Just because you cover conflict doesn't mean you thrive on adrenaline. It means you have a purpose, and you feel it is very important for people back home to see what is happening on the front line, especially if we are sending American soldiers there.
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The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
