Jonathan Swift Quotes
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of that stuff. I don't look at the Internet, although I know people tell me I'm all over it. Somebody told me they Googled me, and they said I was mentioned two million times, some stupid thing... but who cares?
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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It's a simple fact: no individual can be good at everything. Everyone needs people around them who have complimentary sets of skills.
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My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
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I could play for the worst team if they paid the most... If the last-place team offers $200 million and the first-place team offers $10, I'm going to go for the $200-million no matter what team it was.
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As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.
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I was living with my dad, and I loved it. But I could totally imagine that if I didn't move out quickly, I would end up staying there well into my 30s.
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War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.
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I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.
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Since the beginning, the people of the college and I have agreed that the music of MerleFest is 'traditional plus.'
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Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it.
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I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.
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I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.
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I get so carried away in interviews and deliver 1,500-word treatises, then find it's been reduced to something pithier but also not quite accurate. Although I imagine there are people I work with who wish they could edit me every day.
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I have spent many years working in education and media, from hosting documentaries to being a spokesperson for Discovery Education to revolutionizing youth environmental service through my non-profit, EarthEcho International.
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The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
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I am a better cook than I am an actor. If I have any ego, it's about cooking. I'm one of the best cooks... and I cook in any language.
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A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
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Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
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The skyline in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope' is made up: no, you don't get the Waldorf and the Chrysler and the Empire State buildings and a dozen other magnificent structures in one window.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
