Joseph Addison Quotes
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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For 'Ghostbusters,' the thing that makes it such an amazing franchise and an amazing idea is that it is adds the element of physics and technology. It's not just about ghosts. Who the heck came up with that? It is such a good idea, such a unique combination of stuff from different genres. Ghosts and sci fi.
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Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.
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Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
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There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.
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War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
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It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.
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I think that’s a responsibility that I have, to push possibilities, to show people: “This is the level that things could be at.”
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Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine.
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What is the alternative to peace? A catastrophe for both peoples [Palestine and Israel].
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What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.
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The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
