Jonathan Swift Quotes
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.
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I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.
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As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.
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I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.
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I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.
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The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.
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I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.
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Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.
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I look back at the looks I've had over the years. I'm proud of myself that I had the courage to experiment with crazy hairstyles and some fashion things. Would I do it again? No. But that's part of the learning process and getting from point A to point B.
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People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
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I'm really interested in harvesting surplus energy, energy that surrounds but we never really use.
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Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.
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Life is funny and it is interesting how we make it as serious as possible.
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God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.
