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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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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The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House.
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People are demonstrably insane when it comes to assessing human sentience.
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.
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Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it.
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The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system.
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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.
