Jonathan Swift Quotes
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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People believe what they want to believe.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.
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I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.
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A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.
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Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified documents.
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Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
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I want to go down in history.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.
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I want to play in the WBC. That was one of my goals to represent my country.
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I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it, and that's not something I want anyone to know.
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Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.
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You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.
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Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
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I don't really want to make this sound depressing, but I will say that I didn't really have my first kiss until really, really late.
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I want to just be what kids believe in.
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I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives.
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Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.
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I've been pretty lucky with neighbors. But back in 1998, I lived, like, literally next door to Wrigley Field in Chicago. And I had, like, 50,000 bad neighbors spread out over the course of one summer. I'm a diehard Cubs fan, but living right next to the ballpark, it's just - as you're trying to go to sleep, you can just, like, hear urination.
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When I started modeling, they tried to pay black models less than they paid Caucasian models. I turned down those jobs because I knew what I was worth.
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Imperfections don’t make something ugly.
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The advantage of the cauliflower is that if all else fails, you can always cover it with melted cheese and eat it.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
