Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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Prayer is man's greatest power!
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.
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It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.
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Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
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At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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I used to be obsessed with game shows. When the Game Show Network became popular in the late '90s, I was all about reruns of 'The Price Is Right.' I knew all the prices from the '70s.
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I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
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A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
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For me, the making of exhibitions has always had to do with dialogue: a concentrated, in-depth, focused dialogue with artists, who keep teaching me that exhibitions should always invent new rules for the game.
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In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already, that says there's evidence that, yes, in principle, they can be better programmers than humans.
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Under the rubric of conservatism, the Republican party of Bush I and II has been reinventing itself into what conservatives would have once recognized as a Rockefeller party reciting Reaganite rhetoric.
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Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
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Everyone's entitled to their point of view but that's seriously a weird one.
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The fear of death comes from limited awareness.
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It’s funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened
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Number three is always fortunate.
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I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.
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I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time.
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Praise is the daughter of present power.
