Joseph Addison Quotes
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.
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The way I look at it you can always get better.
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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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I got the best of Rod. And I am fully aware that, even though I love listening to his stories of the crazy days, no relationship could really last then. I sometimes wish I could go back in time to the 1970s or 1980s, sit at a bar, and observe him, but I'm glad our time came when it did.
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I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.
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The business model of Wall Street is fraud. In my view, there is no better example than the recently-exposed illegal behavior at Wells Fargo.
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There is nothing that's off the table. I have my positions and I'll articulate them. But nothing's off the table.
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I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.
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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
