Jonathan Swift Quotes
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
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You cannot do only one thing.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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My parents were reluctant to let me start auditioning until I was at least a little bit emotionally stable - I'm still working on that! And so I started when I was fifteen, and it was the best thing that could have happened to me in terms of being able to focus my crazy teenage energy into something good.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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Everything that I design I would wear myself.
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Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.
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Acting is a form of confession.
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Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket.
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Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
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Oh, I was only twenty four hours from Tulsa,Ah, only one day away from your arms;I hate to do this to you but I love somebody new, what can I do?And I can never, never, never … go home again.
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The First Amendment, I think, is the jewel of our Constitution.
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Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.
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Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
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How can you close your eyes and say this has nothing to do with me? I'm not speaking about politics. Politics is a terrible thing. Everyone wants power.
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'Move Bitch!'
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They call me The Tinkerman. Wherever I go people say 'Ah ha, there is The Tinkerman.'
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Nothing thrills me more than to be good at something. It's very rewarding, and I feel grateful and blessed, and I never take it for granted.
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Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too.
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You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.
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Mother Nature just gave me the ultimate physique.
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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
