Jonathan Swift Quotes
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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry.
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In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.
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People like to see showdowns.
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Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.
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Historians will look back in stupor at 20th and 21st century Americans who believed the magnificent republic they inherited would be enriched by bringing in scores of millions from the failed states of the Third World.
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A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.
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It takes people being alone in front of the computer at three in the morning to write opinions about movies, apparently.
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I'm extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed.
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I realised that music controls me more than I control music. I had to write songs that were convincing me that things would get better.
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I doubt I'd ever do television to the extent that, say, Gordon Ramsay has.
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The truth is that politicians are basically tied to trying to get reelected, so they can't really make landmark changes.
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Cyber weapons won't go away, and their spread can't be controlled. Instead, as we've done for other destructive technologies, the world needs to establish a set of principles to determine the proper conduct of governments regarding cyber conflict.
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If I suddenly disappear from the music world, you might see Hikaru Utada working as a helper at some inn in Atami.
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Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.
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There is no success you can celebrate more than the success of a brother.
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Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.
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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.