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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Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
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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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As a creative person, you want to have a foothold and sense of progress.
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I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
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I grew up with my two sisters and my mom, so it's my lot in life to be surrounded by women.
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When I was 13, I really used to skip down the street, happy in thinking, "Oh, well, someone's suffering pain in order for me to feel this pleasure."
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I think I was born into an incredibly fortunate environment.
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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.
