Jonathan Swift Quotes
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.
Jonathan Swift
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I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
Jackie Chan
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
Patrick Marber
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I very, very rarely get the opportunity to go shopping and actually feel the clothes and try things on. I love shopping, but I do it mostly through Net-a-Porter.
Victoria Beckham
Spice Girls
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It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.
Sam Kinison
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
Wassily Kandinsky
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It must be horrible having people scared to talk to you. But I think it's kinda cool that I don't really know anyone in that way.
Cameron Dallas
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All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.
David Whyte
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I gather that a lot of the "pots" in the great museum in Baghdad, which we allowed to be looted and then gutted, are now for sale to the highest bidder on the art and archeology black market. This is good capitalism, I guess, while a museum, being a public trust and accessible to all, is anticapitalist, pretty damn near socialist in fact.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
Walter Cronkite
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Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.
Constantin Stanislavski
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Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.
Jonathan Swift