Jonathan Swift Quotes
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
Quotes to Explore
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.
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It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.
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I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.
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If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
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I just like to keep my money in the bank; I'm not a big risk-taker. I don't know anything about the stock market... I stay away from things I don't know anything about.
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Raise the taxes, and we find less money in our pockets. Lower the taxes, and we've got more money in those pockets, and we spend it on all kinds of things.
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
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I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!
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When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.
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Trump can spend virtually an unlimited amount of his own money on this election, which makes him unlike any of the other candidates in the race. So those who oppose him will have to work very hard to make sure he doesn't win.
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But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.
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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
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I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house.
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I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are.
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We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.
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Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time...' But in high school, I realized I could study creative writing in college and actually pursue it as a viable career.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
