Jonathan Swift Quotes
Hail, follow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.
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If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
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We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur.
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
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I think the kind of films and roles I do takes a whole year... I think it is justified. At some point, we have to come to that place where we are equally paid. It is a small step... we are headed to that direction.
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I'm not going to say paint is an easy spruce-up. It takes time, it needs touch-ups, and you have to be very methodical. But it is worth it, and it isn't particularly expensive.
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I always wanted to be on a sitcom.
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Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. He's an unbelievably kind man with a great family.
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It’s in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it’s a tradition I want to pass on to my son.
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The lawlessness that has swept the country must stop.
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Working at something you don't care about is the very best way to waste your life.
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Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
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Prayer is the lungs through which holiness breathes. Prayer is not only the language of spiritual life, but also makes its very essence and forms its real character. O for a faith that will not shrink though pressed by every foe; That will not tremble on the brink of any earthly woe. Lord, give us such a faith as this... whatever may come...
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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... Love is heaven and claims its own.
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Greatest sin of man kind: neglect to use his greatest asset.
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If you have many children, the first one is always different because you can only have one child who is the first. They have different natures and talents for you to love.
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I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying goodby to me.
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...because if you tell a lie when you are being eaten by a nearly dead queen, you are always struck dumb.
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Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
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Hail, follow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.
