Jonathan Swift Quotes
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street.
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I think recharging is important, absolutely. Every now and then, you need maybe a couple of weeks to just chill out and let your emotions balance themselves out a little bit.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.
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I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.
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I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.
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I was in fittings for the first costume even before I knew I was even going to be 'Deathlok.'
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I don't see any reason to discriminate against homosexuals.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
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It’s a paradox. If I’m not strong enough to say no to my dad, I’m surely not strong enough to run the company. If he manages to break me down, I’ll know I can’t do it.
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Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
