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.
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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!
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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I do love to capture beauty in this world. And photos can last the test of time.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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I'm a very proud actor.
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I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.
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I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush.
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We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
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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.
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
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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?
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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.
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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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Simplicity is the essence of universality.
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The experimental psychologist... needs historical sophistication within his own sphere of expertness. Without such knowledge he sees the present in distorted perspective, he mistakes old facts and old views for new, and he remains unable to evaluate the significance of new movements and methods. In this matter I can hardly state my faith too strongly. A psychological sophistication that contains no component of historical orientation seems to me to be no sophistication at all.
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Basketball wasn't going particularly well, but in my senior year, I did a play and got a wonderful card from a professor that said, 'I don't know what your plans are after school or if acting is a part of it, but you have something special.' Hearing that from someone who I had so much respect for pointed me in that direction.
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A college joke to cure the dumps.
