Jonathan Swift Quotes
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry.
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In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.
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People like to see showdowns.
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Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.
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Historians will look back in stupor at 20th and 21st century Americans who believed the magnificent republic they inherited would be enriched by bringing in scores of millions from the failed states of the Third World.
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A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.
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It takes people being alone in front of the computer at three in the morning to write opinions about movies, apparently.
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Sure, we all like listening to music on vinyl, but that doesn't mean streaming music on Spotify is bad.
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I'm extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed.
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A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.
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I realised that music controls me more than I control music. I had to write songs that were convincing me that things would get better.
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I doubt I'd ever do television to the extent that, say, Gordon Ramsay has.
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Because for me, '60s pop music is amongst the most complicated or complex music because it has so many resonances which strike you. The music itself is often simple, but the way that I interpret it, or the way I think it's interpreted culturally, is very complex.
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He who awaits much can expect little.
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In fact, Tibet is one of the most popular European tourist attraction of asia.
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I think it's fantastically narcissistic to believe that in the entire universe, with all of the planetary systems that we've already discovered and the countless others that are out there, that we are the only forms of life.
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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
