Jonathan Swift Quotes
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There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
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My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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Paris ain't much of a town.
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.
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I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
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I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
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There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.
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I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
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The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.
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I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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The Tragically Hip, more so than any other band I've worked with, approach their work like a team. This might sound way too pat, but they're like a great hockey team: all five of them have their roles. They go at their shows like an athletic event; they're in it to win it, and they'll lay it out there on the proverbial ice in order to win and get the crowd on their side. You can't do that when you just throw a band together. There's a sixth sense there that makes it easy.
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I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate.
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If you're 15 and you tell someone a secret, they can put it up on Facebook. If you make a mistake, someone films it on their mobile and puts it up on YouTube. When you're 15, you deserve privacy.
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Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something.
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Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.
