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.
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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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It was a deliberate decision to act in family entertainers like 'Govindudu Andari Vadele' and 'Bruce Lee.'
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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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ἀλλὰ τὸ μὲν πάντων νόμιμον διάτ᾽ εὐρυμέδοντος/αἰθέρος ἠνεκέως τέταται διά τ᾽ ἀπλέτου αὐγῆς
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I am inspired by the kind of films Raj Kumar Gupta and Imtiaz Ali make.
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Once you get on stage, everything is right. I feel the most beautiful, complete, fulfilled. I think that's why, in the case of noncompromising career women, parts of our personal lives don't work out. One person can't give you the feeling that thousands of people give you.
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In the '50s and '60s, a family's first child went into the priesthood, the second went into the military, and the third child was an idiot and wound up in advertising.
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I'm so lucky to have such a great family. I respect them so much professionally, and they've been unconditionally supportive in the choices that I've made. It's been very good having them on my side.
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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.
