Jonathan Swift Quotes
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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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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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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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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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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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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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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It comes down to personal style, and that's what's sexy and attractive in a man.
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What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.
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In trying to make a big difference, don't ignore the small daily differences we can make.
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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.
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They cannot stand alone against us,” Temujin said. “We will take them one by one.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
