Jonathan Swift Quotes
Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.
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I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
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My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.
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We spent night after night out there learning the art of entertaining a crowd.
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We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.
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We reached the point where weapons should go silent and ideas speak.
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I can't tell you how important it was for us to be successful in japan.
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Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain.
