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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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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That's the first sign you know you're a Libertarian. You see the red light. You stop. You realize that there's not a car in sight. And you put your foot on the gas.
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One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.
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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!
