Jonathan Swift Quotes
When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.
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I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.
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Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
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The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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I'm not a big person, so every time they were adding these big guys to the cast, I said to my trainer, 'We're screwed, dude.' I'm only five foot five, and I'm going to look so little.
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The old world of England was picturesque and safe in a way that L.A. wasn't, but it was so amazingly socially cruel. I had never experienced that in America - never in school, nowhere.
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True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.
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Whether you agree with Julian Assange or what he's doing, there's no question of the impact and scale of WikiLeaks. It's a whole different level.
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I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, 'Do not weep for me,This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country-I now go back there,I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn.'
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If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
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I want to be read, and I certainly want to sell, but I also see my father's eye from Heaven: 'Always write quality. It doesn't matter if you sell; if it's good, it's good - if you capture the complexity of life.'
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Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have everything you want.
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Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions.
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My father's mother was a secular Jew who died in Auschwitz. I only found out as an adult because my father never talked about it. He was a secularist and never defined himself in ethnic terms - partly, I think, because he was scared; partly out of the habit of not talking of such things; partly because he didn't like being defined by other people.
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When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.
