Jonathan Swift Quotes
Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
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My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.
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Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
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Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.
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I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.
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I just do my job and go home. There's just one or two people I can say are friends that I can call.
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'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
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Divorces are made in Heaven.
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Other lands became a larder full of all the good things All we had to do was go and take Blood the colour of the rain that grew our wicked harvest Black the colour icing on our cake
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words. But there is a wide range of emotional response that we make that cannot be put into words. We are so used to making these emotional responses that we are not consciously aware of them till they are represented in art work.
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Parents are destined to sin against their kids; it's inevitable. As is narcissism and the human condition. Everyone has their ego and their ambitions. Life happens in between.
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Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude.
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The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
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I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.
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I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach - you may call this Utopia - to make Catalans and Basques feel good about supporting a Spanish side... to unite even the most sectarian and nationalist.
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Cease, cease, wayward Mortal! I dare not unveil The shadows that float o’er Eternity’s vale; Nought waits for the good but a spirit of Love, That will hail their blest advent to regions above. For Love, Mortal, gleams through the gloom of my sway, And the shades which surround me fly fast at its ray.
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Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.
