Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
J. G. Ballard -
If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!
Idina Menzel -
I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
T. C. Boyle -
I do love to capture beauty in this world. And photos can last the test of time.
Nathaniel Buzolic -
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
W. H. Auden -
I'm a very proud actor.
F. Murray Abraham
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I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush.
Barbara Lee -
We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
Walter Cronkite -
Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things.
Maya Angelou -
People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
I'm not saying that hip-hop needs gay rappers or anything, but they need to stop being so close-minded because that will just cause the genre to fail. Look at pop. Pop doesn't discriminate against people. Look at Lady Gaga, y'know what I mean?
ASAP Rocky -
People talk about this Julia Roberts almost like it's a cup of Pepsi. People think Julia Roberts is something they created. The fact is, 26 years ago, there was this scrunched-up little pink baby named Julia Roberts. I am a girl, like anybody else.
Julia Roberts
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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
Henry Ward Beecher -
The one thing I think I've noticed about shows that are supposed to be funny on television is that they've sort of become routinized, so there's an awful lot of mannerisms and joke lines that are sort of there to trigger laughter, rather than give actors a chance to play a moment.
Alan Alda -
There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
Honore de Balzac -
I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
Walter Annenberg -
Always remember, joy is not incidental to spiritual quest. It is vital.
Nachman of Breslov -
I can't believe I did a peace sign on TV - like Ringo Starr!
Adele