Jonathan Swift Quotes
Whence proceeds this weight we lay On what detracting people say? Their utmost malice cannot make Your head, or tooth, or finger ache; Nor spoil your shapes, distort your face, Or put one feature out of place.
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I love working with other actors and other people - you know, stand-up - it's lonely; it's just you out there and the audience. But it's fun working with other actors. I love doing that, too.
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Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.
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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
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I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.
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I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am.
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I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!
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I like Ned Leeds. I love the character so much. He's a very new character in the MCU. I think he's a very fresh take on people in the superhero world. Some superheroes crack under pressure, and Ned Leeds, who is not a superhero, doesn't.
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I want everyone in the Republican party who opposed me to know this: you are welcome to join this people's crusade. Come aboard. You are both welcome and needed. If we unite, we'll win - and we'll rebuild New York.
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I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.
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I will never be an insider. I want to be the champion of people who don't have insiders and lobbyists supporting them.
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When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.
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One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.
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When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.
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Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
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Every thought we think is creating our future.
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In a perfect world, I don't think any man should slap anyone.
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I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.
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Whence proceeds this weight we lay On what detracting people say? Their utmost malice cannot make Your head, or tooth, or finger ache; Nor spoil your shapes, distort your face, Or put one feature out of place.
