Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
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I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.
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It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.
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In Philly, there are a lot of social programs. If you have a degree, you can go and apply. I was basically a social worker, but I became sort of a sub teacher in a special program, helping kids with reading or math. But we would also do plays, learn about music... We were doing lots of fun stuff, but that was such hard work.
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I am not The Rock. I am Dwayne Johnson.
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The world absolutely needs your voice.
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We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.
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Through the grace of Christ we shall live in obedience to the law of God written upon our hearts. Having the Spirit of Christ, we shall walk even as He walked.
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In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.
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One-eyed Reuben 'Rooster' Cogburn is the role that finally delivered John Wayne his Oscar.
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I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.
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We have to create a world where people can show up as whole people every single time.
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So few grown women like their lives.
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The government is right to recognise the importance of science and technology, but I think it is a mistake to ringfence funds.
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Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise.
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So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare.
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I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.
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This is an exhortation for a country that is on the verge of civil war...
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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
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The thing about being a songwriter, once you realize you are one, is that to provide ammo, you start to become an observer. ... You're constantly on the alert. That faculty gets trained in you over the years: observing people, how they react to one another, which in a way makes you weirdly distant. ... It's a little of Peeping Tom, being a song-writer.
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Eating Paleo just leans you down and slims you up and takes that little layer of fat and water-weight right off your body.
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When I became White House press secretary, there were other limitations that were thrust upon me. Bill Clinton was under pressure to appoint women to visible positions. I was 31, I'd never worked in Washington. Was I ready for this large and visible job? Still he wanted the credit. So he gave me the job but diminished the job.
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When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.
