Joseph Addison Quotes

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

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• Everyone romanticizes somebody.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Everyone
  • Somebody

• I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird.

  

  Lara Stone
  • People
  • Friends
  • Weird

• When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

  

  Oliver North
  • You
  • Trust
  • Information

• Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Day
  • Nobody
  • Court

• A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Want
  • Talk
  • Little Girls

• I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Three
  • London

• Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Best

• I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • World
  • Great
  • Home

• I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • School
  • Serious
  • Drama

• The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Feel
  • Medicine
  • Medical

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• They probably do have an Asian Barbie.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Asian
  • Barbie

• I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • Responsibility
  • Government

• People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.

  

  Oliver Evans
  • People
  • See
  • Eat

• Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Children
  • Child
  • Beast

• Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Hate
  • Thought
  • Idiot

• I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Hate
  • Star
  • Pop

• It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Science
  • Political
  • Action

• A biopic would have required hiring an actor, and I always wanted to just let Bobby be Bobby. My thought was it would make it a more universal story to focus on ordinary people rather than this extraordinary man.

  

  Emilio Estevez
  • People
  • Focus

• I'm really awkward when people recognize me. I'm not good at it, and for the most part it hadn't happened to me until 'True Blood,' and then, all of a sudden, it started happening all the time.

  

  Lizzy Caplan
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• As a black woman trying different products and figuring out what works best for me, the one thing that I realized is that hair brands lump us together as having 'black hair,' but all black hair is not alike.

  

  Keshia Knight Pulliam
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Together

• The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.

  

  Imogene Coca
  • People
  • Try
  • Butterfly

• I grew up in Montpelier, Indiana. It's a little town in the northeast corner of Indiana. It's a rural community; about two thousand people, a very much hometown U.S.A. kind of thing.

  

  Kevin A. Ford
  • People
  • Up
  • Community

• Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

  

  Joseph Addison
  • People
  • Wish
  • Humble