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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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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There will always be critics of the potato because it is lowly and humble, ... But it still represents $2 billion of revenue a year in the state of Idaho -- and thousands of jobs.
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Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
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I had been in France less than 48 hours before that obliging agent of yours had to stop me being run over by a French van full of French chickens because I’d looked the wrong way before crossing the street. Which shows how cunning the Gestapo are. “This person I’ve pulled from beneath the wheels of certain death was expecting traffic to travel on the left side of the road. Therefore she must be British, and is likely to have parachuted into Nazi-occupied France out of an Allied plane. I shall now arrest her as a spy.
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I can be busy for three years and you may not even know what I'm busy doing because you only see me in a few scenes here or there, but I've been working my tail off because there's just not a lot.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
