Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.
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The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
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When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
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It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand.
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Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them.
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I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.
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I got kicked out of a club for sticking up for my sister. And I got into a fight that was basically hair pulling and rolling around on the gym floor. The fights make me sound like a hell-raiser, but I'm not proud of them.
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A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.
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If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
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I am staying unsettled and trying not to talk for three years. I want to do it very much.
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I hate auditions.
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I broke my ankle ten years ago so high heels are not an option unless I'm literally going door to door for a function.
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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.
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The jambalaya of the American South owes a lot to the cuisines of the islands and western Africa, and it's my favorite of this type of one-pot cookery.
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Technological transformations give you the chance to set up new and ambitious ventures. That's what I did with FastWeb and that is what we are doing with Babelgum. This is much more than TV because we are making the content available all across the world and you have an open platform with freedom of choice.
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I love doing crosswords, it's so important to keep the brain going.
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People are looking for original content in many different places, as are advertisers. This takes us into a whole new ballgame.
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Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.
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If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.
