Jonathan Swift Quotes

The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.

Jonathan Swift

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• Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

  

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• What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.

  

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• Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

  

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• I like to build things. I like to do things.

  

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• I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

  

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• It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.

  

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• People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'

  

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• If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.

  

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• I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.

  

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• I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.

  

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• Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

  

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• When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'

  

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• I am somebody who is constantly hungry to nibble on something.

  

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• Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.

  

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• The imperfections in my family made me learn to deal with things on my own and solve problems for myself.

  

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• I've loved cartoons all along. Most people outgrow that when they hit 10 or 12, I guess, but I never did. I'm not sure why.

  

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• Man, I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can't experience the federal penal system and not be somewhat skeptical.

  

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• What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.

  

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• Over-the-knee socks remind me of the 1920s, silent films, and the stars of the era who wore the rolled-down stockings. They sort of referenced that in 'Cabaret,' when Liza Minnelli was singing 'Mein Herr,' and I love the way she looks in that scene.

  

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• Never for one single moment have I doubted the rightness of what I did at Munich, nor can I believe that it was possible for me to do more than I did to prepare the country for war after Munich, given the violent & persistent opposition I had to fight against all the time.

  

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• The professor, instead of being the "sage on the stage," functions as a "guide on the side."

  

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• I'm someone who speaks my mind, so it was important to me that my publisher value originality and creative expression.

  

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  • Important
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• The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Style
  • Ireland
  • Scholars