Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.
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We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
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I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.
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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.
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Whatever you want to call it, they have all these names for these coverages, I've seen them. Like those linemen coming out to jam me on the line of scrimmage. A lot of crazy stuff.
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Happiness is very simple and minimal.
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I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on.
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We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.
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The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.
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If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
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Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
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We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
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The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
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Andy Samberg and Chelsea Peretti went to kindergarten together. For real.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
