Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
Nadia Comaneci
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
Victoria Justice
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
Kate Clinton
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And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.
Jackson Browne
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I certainly support civil unions.
Carly Fiorina
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Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
Vince McMahon
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But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
Obie Trice
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Ever since I was 10 years old doing jiu-jitsu, I've done well against the tall guys.
Rafael dos Anjos
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From the day war conquered the skies, nothing could check its progress.
Ferdinand Buisson
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'Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it.'
Banksy
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I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness.
Eckhart Tolle
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Man is an eternal sophomore.
Wallace Stevens
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The truth was, I needed to impress them. I knew from my previous discussions with Ben that you needed money or brains to get into the University. The more of one you had, the less of the other you needed.
Patrick Rothfuss
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To know yourself less beloved than you love, is a dreadful feeling
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Zwey Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.
Khaled Hosseini
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One of the most difficult of the philosopher's tasks is to find out where the shoe pinches.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Obama is not only obstructing budget reform; it's almost as if he is trying to make matters worse.
David Limbaugh
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We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.
Peter Benchley
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When times are tough, people want to escape to somewhere fantastic without having to pay actual escape-to-somewhere-fantastic cash. And offering a couple of hours away from the ordinary is what the movies do best.
John Ridley
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I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.
Fernando Pessoa
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Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting.
Kristin Davis
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Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
Jonathan Swift