Joseph Addison Quotes
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script... The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
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Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.
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I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play.
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I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.
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I took an oath to protect the Constitution, and protecting the Constitution means not letting the president bypass the separation of powers.
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Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
