Jonathan Swift Quotes
I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my garden's end; A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.
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It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.
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I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.
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I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart.
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Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.
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My first experience on a feature film was with Shane Meadows on 'This Is England.'
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As with my hat upon my headI walk'd along the Strand,I there did meet another manWith his hat in his hand.
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I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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Try life as your own boss, on your own voyage. No daily commute. No salad bar at 12:15. No cc'ing about the meeting.
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Masculine anger is always because you are feeling constrained, trapped by life. Feminine anger is always because you are feeling unloved.
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There will be, and should be, reams and reams of analysis, even praise, for our friend but also even larger measures of non-analysis and, certainly, condemnation for James Baldwin, the Negro writer.
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An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict.
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I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my garden's end; A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.
