Joseph Addison Quotes
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I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
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Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
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I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their attitude and decided to produce a shorter edition for middle-class families. This led to Wilhelm's editing and censoring many of the tales.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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What did it matter if no one cared, as long as she did herself? Relying on others was a dangerous way to live, and frequently a waste of time.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance
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Stalin said artists are the engineers of human souls. I wanted to show what happens to the soul when the engineers get through with it.
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Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
