Jonathan Swift Quotes
Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.
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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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It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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I don't work out or watch what I eat – but I need to start so it doesn't catch up to me.
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Fashion nowadays is all about product - bags and shoes - and you're kind of a product yourself, aren't you?
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I hate birthdays.
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I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.
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People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.
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I'm from Miami, and Diplo is from Fort Lauderdale. We grew up with a lot of Cuban and Haitian friends.
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
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Seriously, I think everybody needs to be more disciplined; nobody needs any meat. But from a perspective of how many animals suffer, it’s probably better to kill and eat one whale than it is to eat fish, chickens, cows, lambs and eggs.
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Unfortunately for the modern dramatist, during the past century and a half the public realm has been less and less of a realm where human deeds are done, and more and more of a realm of mere human behavior. The contemporary dramatist has lost his natural subject.
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The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.
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Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.
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Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make.
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I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.
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I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.
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Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.
