Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.
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This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.
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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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I'm not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I'm not really interested in that.
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The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.
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I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.
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I am not a gamer. Not since the days of Atari.
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Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me there once or twice. And what I really remember is the design collection.
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I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.
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We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.
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A carpenter is known by his chips.
