Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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I grew up in New York.
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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You are only as good as the people you dress.
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The kind of money that show business will pay you, unless you need to have shoes made of diamonds, you can actually put it in the bank and sort of be okay.
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I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses, or musicians. And you know, I've been a big fan of different musicians or actors.
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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.
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Ever since I was little, I've always liked to smash things.
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Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.
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It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.
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I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really the only thing it's based on is whether it's good or not. No book editor, in my experience, is getting a manuscript and trying to rewrite it.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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I did have wonderful things to draw from, from my own experience and also just from friends and people I'd gone to school with who were very much immersed in this world right now.
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The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.
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A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.
