Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.
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Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.
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Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.
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I've said numerous times that I play to have a stage that people will listen to, and I pray to God that I do right by my influence.
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Mi dignidad le pide a quien no me hace daño que no me haga daño, y a quien me hace daño no le pide nada.
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Estoy en el ayer, en el hoy. ¿Y en mañana? En el mañana estuve.
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Well, better expelled and able to defend yourselves than sitting safely in school without a clue," said Sirius.
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Apparently, the people in the [George W.] Bush administration who wanted to confront me on this could not spell my name correctly. They wanted to send a series of emails thinking that perhaps MSNBC was perhaps favorable to the Bush administration. They thought that they could send me a series of questions or talking points to disprove Joe Wilson with.
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I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.
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He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth.
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What counts in the ring is what you can do after you're exhausted. The same is true of life.
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Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.
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A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
