Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.
Yelawolf -
I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
Nate Silver -
I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
Dana Snyder -
Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
Garth Brooks -
If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.
Victoria Justice -
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Orison Swett Marden
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
Jack Nicklaus -
The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
Gail Sheehy -
Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
Orson Scott Card -
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Mahatma Gandhi -
You can never get enough of what you don't want.
Wayne Dyer -
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.
Manal al-Sharif -
In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.
Yael Naim -
And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.
Lara Flynn Boyle -
It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.
Damian Lewis -
Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
The real great news is, in the piracy capitals of the world, Netflix is winning. We are pushing down piracy in those markets by getting the access.
Ted Sarandos
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I have no idea what 'method actor' means.
Viggo Mortensen -
If we don't believe in the Devil, we won't be able to recognize him when he suddenly shows up.
Karin Fossum -
The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are. And why does this matter? It matters because it shows that the way out is back and that the future is a forward escape into the past. This is what the psychedelic experience means. Its a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity.
Terence McKenna -
Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
T-Pain -
In terms of politics, I just look at people's policies, and sometimes I agree with something, sometimes I won't.
Gary Lineker -
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
Jonathan Swift