Jonathan Swift Quotes
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired.
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I bought a girl roses once.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
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Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
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If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
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Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
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It's really important to visit a site you are writing about. Even if you know it well, even if you have lived there, it's important to take a fresh look in terms of your characters and your story.
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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
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You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
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I believe the main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired.
