Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
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In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
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I'm loyal. I'm real. I'm not afraid to say what I'm thinking.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
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It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
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I wasn't born, I was ordered from room service.
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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
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I was born in Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh, as my parents are both pandits from there. But I was brought up in Chandigarh.
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I am from Pomona, California. I was born in Los Angeles.
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I'm not afraid of problem-solving. There is always a way.
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Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.
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In eras when authority or at least specific authorities have been questioned, there is more tendency to examine the roots of and the need for authority. The owl of Minerva flies not in the dusk but in the storm.
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We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.
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But jealous souls will not be answered so, They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they're jealous. 'Tis a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself.
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere.
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Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?
