Joseph Addison Quotes
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
Quotes to Explore
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
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I've lived with boys and girls, and I find that boys are generally cleaner than girls. Generally! This is a big generalization!
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
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I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
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If David Duke got the percentage of the vote that Le Pen got, we would be terrified, as well we should be.
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Music reflects an artist's feelings and their experiences.
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Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
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When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity.
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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
