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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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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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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My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
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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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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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6) Everybody talks first draft.
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The hardest battle you’re ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.
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Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.
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Children have a primal need to know who they are, to love and be loved by the two people whose physical union brought them here. To lose that connection, that sense of identity, is to experience a wound that no child-support check or fancy school can ever heal.
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Back in the day, in '91 or so, I tried to interview Fugazi for Rolling Stone, which the band felt stood for everything they detested about corporate infiltration of music. They said, 'We'll do the interview if you give us a million dollars of cash in a suitcase.' Which was their way of saying no.
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When you play for this organization, it's in your blood. The fans bleed black and gold and so do the players who have worn that uniform.
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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.
