Jonathan Swift Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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I sort of consider myself a Nigerian who spends a lot of time in the U.S.
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But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.
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I bought a Cartier nail bracelet to celebrate the fifth anniversary of my blog. It's an investment piece, but it's simple enough to wear every day, and it's something that will last forever.
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If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.
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None of Chopin's contemporaries could rival him for the variety and effectiveness of his treatment of the return.
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I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.
