Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.
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One of the things about the six sixes, which really comes over me every time somebody asks a question or says to me, 'I've just seen them,' or people always ask me about it... It makes me feel that's the only thing I've ever done in the history of cricket.
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She'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding.
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I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.
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Mnemosyne, one must admit, has shown herself to be a very careless girl.
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We hold our hate too choice a thing, for light and careless lavishing.
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Well,- said her daddy,- your careless heedlessness has almost lost me my life. I am now going to give you a spanking. And he did and so dinner was a snuffling red-eyed meal filled with cold looks and long silences and the cheese souffle, which was delicious.
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People who share a muddled, careless, or deceitful attitude towards gathering evidence often find themselves drawn to eachother's fantasies. If you believe one wrong or strange thing, you are more likely to believe another.
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I wanted him to see in that plate of pasta everything that, by leaving, he would no longer be able to look at, or touch, or caress, listen to, smell: never again.
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You can never hope to recapture the first fine careless rapture as the poet put it, but it stays with you like a good acid trip.
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Take good care of the things you have. Careless people spend more for a given standard of living.
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We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources of nature, squandering both as if there were no end to the gifts of earth and sea and sky.
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I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo.
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The benefit of film is that you're shooting something for an intense period of time - and then it's over, and you move on to something else. In TV, you're doing the same thing over and over.
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Get involved in an issue that you're passionate about. It almost doesn't matter what it is ... We give too much of our power away, to the professional politicians, to the lobbyists, to cynicism. And our democracy suffers as a result.
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I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I'm sleeping.
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Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.
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Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.
