Jonathan Swift Quotes
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
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One shouldn't know the future.
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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
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As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
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I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
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I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
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I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.
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I actually have no style whatsoever. I'm the worst. I have people I talk to, and I say, 'Please tell me how to dress because I don't know what I'm doing.' The biggest thing for me is my mom. I'm like, 'Mom, do I look good?' If she says yes, I'm good to go.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.
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The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
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I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing.
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I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.
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I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them.
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I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.
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Just do what makes you happy....sounds simple, doesn't it ?
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You have to want to be happy—some people don’t.
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The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
