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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'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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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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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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Thank God I'm with the love of my life. That's why I know I'm right where I'm supposed to be.
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He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair: For when they reach the scene of crime - Macavity's not there!
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My philosophy is to use the stones hurled at me to make a bridge for myself; I believe in proving my critics wrong through my work. I keep saying, the more muck you throw at me, the brighter will the BJP lotus bloom. That is the nature of the lotus, it rises out of keechhad (slush) to create exquisite beauty.
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He would not anticipate those counsels which are rather bestowed by circumstances on men, than by men on circumstances.
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I've always said in my career and in my life I only do things I'm interested in.
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I went to the University of Minnesota, and I met this amazing artist named Cameron Boothe there who was in World War I, who studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich.
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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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I love the idea of documentaries. I love seeing documentaries, and I love making them. Documentaries are incredibly easy to shoot. The ease with which you can hear something's going on, somebody's going to be somewhere: That sounds so interesting. Pick up your camera and go.
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Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.
