Joseph Addison Quotes
Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
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Yeah, I have animosity, a chip on my shoulder. But I love, too.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
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I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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I've actually done a lot of comedy.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.
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I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
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My coach keeps telling me to say I'm not going to retire. I should just go through the motions and see what I feel every year and see if I really want to do it, but personally, I want to do it, but my coach says just take your time, don't rush.
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Music is my balance... center of my life.
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If the Marines are abolished half the efficiency of the Navy will be destroyed. They are as necessary to the well being of a ship as the officers. Instead of decreasing the Corps, I would rather hope to see a large increase, for we feel the want of Marines very much.
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I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.
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If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.
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Some pro-life advocates focus almost exclusively on the rights and suffering of the unborn baby, while some pro-choice advocates focus equally exclusively on the rights and suffering of pregnant women. This is a distortion of the moral choice that confronts us as a society.
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There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.
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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
