Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing.
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It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.
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The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.
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Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?
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Nothing wrong with making money.
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We have deep depth.
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Every day, women move mountains. It is an insult to have an international women's day.
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The thing about Uggs is that they're so comfortable. Once you've worn them, you don't want to go back.
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Nobody ever told me, 'Art is this.' This was good luck in a way because I would have had to spend half of my life forgetting everything that I had been told, which is what happens with most students in schools of fine arts.
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A lot of people say writers start losing their powers after 60 or 65. But I look at the best-seller list and see a book by that 14-year-old gymnast, Dominique Moceanu, and I think, 'Now, what's she going to tell the world? And these 25-year-old rock stars, what are they going to tell the world?'
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People love to hate. I have a love-hate relationship with the world. The world loves to hate me.
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Some are exploring the world through the subconscious. I've done that on occasions for various reasons, whether it be illness or self abuse, or whatever. Once things start to look grotesque I don't write them or sing them. I couldn't write them - making nightmares into living daylight...The minute it gets dark I shoot back, retreat.
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You can wait forever for perfect conditions or you can make do with what you have.
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Every writer prefers good reviews over bad ones, and every writer wants to have lots of readers. But if it doesn't happen, that's fine too. Perhaps I won't throw a party then; I'll simply go home and keep writing.
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I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.
