Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
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My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
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When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.
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He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.
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Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.
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It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.
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A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.
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Look at this, scabs and cuts all over me, I get these every night, every game. They can't tell you that you're not at risk, and you can't tell me there's one guy in the N.B.A. who hasn't thought about it.
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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We can rebuild an alliance to fight ISIS, but we have to lead, and we have to give our allies what they are asking us to do. We do not have to march off to war, but we have to help our allies fight a war which we need them to win.
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Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
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Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we used to have. I don't play cassettes much anymore, but I play records all the time.
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Three thousand, it's just a number. It's just a game.
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My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get to play the vampy vixen or a Hedda Gabler or Lady Macbeth.
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Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.
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I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
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Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.
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A single Dallas Cowboys football game uses up as much electricity as the entire nation of Liberia in those same three hours - one reason the globe, if looked at from a certain height, is a cluster of lights surrounded by enormous patches of dark.
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The only thing I can do is wipe my arse, brush my teeth, turn up and do the best work I can.
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It's true that all the men you knew were dealers who said they were through with dealing Every time you gave them shelter. I know that kind of man It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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I'm always excited to work and excited to be on a show as good as 'Dexter,' for sure.
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When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
