Jonathan Swift Quotes

The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.

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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.
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I would rather be on the set than doing anything.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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Israel is not the safest place in the world for Jews. Melbourne in Australia is better. Teaneck, New Jersey, is safer.
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I was a huge fan of 'Game Of Thrones.' I hadn't read the books but had watched the series from the beginning.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
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In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
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I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'
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Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
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Weapons of mass destruction violate more than individual lives - they cross international borders and jeopardize all people. They also drain resources that could be used instead for medicines, schools and other life-saving supplies. We must come together with even greater determination to prevent a WMD nightmare.
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Losing one grounds you a bit. I learned a lot after losing the title in 2009, learned that I was probably too intense that year, and when I didn't win, I just felt horrible.
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'Every apostle or disciple,' Mrs. Clarke says, 'as much as their running to follow they're savior-they're running just as hard to escape something else.'
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In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he's doing, he's smart and he's got the big picture in mind. He's like the Godfather.
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To combat the monotony of gym workouts, I started playing soccer. I looked at workouts as training sessions. My soccer training includes squats, pushups, resistance-band work, and sprints. Ninety minutes of running became part of my love of the game rather than a chore.
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Everybody seems to wonder what it's like down here. I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around. Everybody knows this is nowhere.
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The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.