Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I'm just a regular girl who likes to go snowboarding and picks her nose like anybody else. I just like to drive into things and take risks.
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When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched. That was something I not only felt, but I participated in.
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A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.
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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
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Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.
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A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
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Sexy, to me, is the way you carry what you have. I have a big nose, but I rock it.
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Every election I have to hold my nose to vote.
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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
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The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
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Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.
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Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.
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I’d play my nose now, but I’m... it’s... my nose is... out being fixed!
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I hear in the big city, girls dress up like sexy witches and sexy vampires and sexy Easter bunnies, and go to parties where they do all sorts of scandalous things," Kami said. "Luckily you and me, we got to walk around our town looking at our neighbours' gardens and remarking 'My, that's a good-looking scarecrow' to each other. I guess this is why our natures are so beautiful and unspoilt.
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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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Once I asked my counsellor for advice about my vocation. I asked, 'How can I know if God is calling me and for what he is calling me?' He answered, 'You will know by your happiness. If you are happy with the idea that God calls you to serve him and your neighbour, this will be the proof of your vocation.'
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I tried sticking a piece of candy up my nose...it ended up getting stuck and the nurse had to get it out.
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Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love.
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Not the five feet of water to your chin but the inch above the tip of your nose.
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The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
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I'm very introverted, so it requires a huge effort for me to put on a smile and extend a hand and accept compliments. I would much rather be insulted than complimented any day.
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Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.
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The ADA allows persons with disabilities the opportunity to participate in the world around them.
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Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose, To tell what every schoolboy knows.
