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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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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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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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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True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.
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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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The poem is an original and unique creation, but it is reading and recitation: participation.
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I got quite cross when I heard about Emma Thompson adapting 'Sense and Sensibility.' It was absolutely childish of me, but I thought, 'I should be doing that. They didn't even ask me.' Some mistake, surely.
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Every community has crime and violence; it's a part of being human. This idea that black communities are more violent than others is just false. But black folks fight the hardest for our communities. Before governments do, before other people do, we're the first ones to show up. We are the first ones to fight for our lives.
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I love doing my own thing, and I won't let anything get in my way.
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It is important to always look forward.
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Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.
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It's a tough time my friends. We need to make sacrifices to ensure our troops have the tools they need in order to get the job done. This budget will help us win the War on Terror.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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My birthday is a day when all I want is to bask in the love of my family and rarely accept offers for concerts and shows if they are to be held on this day.
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The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.
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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.
