Jonathan Swift Quotes
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.
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A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
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It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.
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I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.
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The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.
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With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
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Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.
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The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.
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Me.
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Larry poured himself a coffee. 'I hate when they come in here with computers. They sit forever at their tables, and they don't talk to nobody, it's like having a place full of statues or zombies.'
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Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.
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It feels like my books come true. I write these things, and then they kind of end up happening. I wasn't divorced, for example, when I wrote a book about divorce.
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We're pretty broad as investors. Our thesis is work with great entrepreneurs that believe they can change the world. But there are specific areas that we get excited about - areas like hard tech, deep tech, companies that deal with really difficult technology, etc.
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I'm not saying it never occurred to me to want to write a masterpiece, but I really doubt I could.
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I can act... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually.
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It's fun being creative and that's satisfying.
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People see the 'Lil' Wayne' persona and think they know who he really is. My son's father is an intelligent, loving and lovable person who will always be a dear friend. That is all.
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What a perfect way to end the home stand, by hitting sixty-two for the city of St. Louis and all the fans. I truly wanted to do it here and I did. Thank you St. Louis.
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Hannah leaned against the wall. "Mind if I call shotgun?" Since you're carrying one? Feel free.
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All my memories of being in Las Vegas with Bobby were great. Frank Sinatra brought us to the Sands Hotel in 1965. When we worked that lounge, it was a great lounge. I think it was bigger than the showroom. We were two 25-year-old dumb kids from Orange County in Las Vegas with The Rat Pack.
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I think you can see that in the show. Music was my touchstone. Music is still much more important to me.
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Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
