Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
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Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.
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My life is my message.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
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I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
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TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
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I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.
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I write about true-life type things.
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I first learned how to do hair from drag queens. I learned eyelashes are the key to life, because they make everyone look fabulous.
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I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'
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Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
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Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.
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… the Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
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There's a lot of phones; but I'm out of that field. They make me feel like a prisoner of war; there's not going to be any texting for me. The pre-paid phone is the frontier of my technological advance.
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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.
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Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.
