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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My retail partners, they are my brand ambassadors. They're the ones who are selling the shoes to women.
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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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Only in Washington would the Republican operatives get the entire press corps ginned up over the notion that I'm going to be home campaigning instead of going to a bunch of worthless parties at a convention that's only being held to do something we all know is going to happen anyway.
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Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth. We walk through it, yell into it, rake leaves, wash the dog, and drive cars in it. We breathe it deep within us. With every breath, we inhale millions of molecules of sky, heat them briefly, and then exhale them back into the world.
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I love to just work with new people in general. It's always really fun.
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I'm the streetwise New Yorker nun who's always wanted to be on-stage. I'm taking tap classes here in Los Angeles. There is a big tap number.
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Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.
