Jonathan Swift Quotes
Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.
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I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
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It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite know how to explain it. You see the uniqueness of what you've been doing, and disassociating yourself from it and going back to the 'normal' life is tough.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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Unfortunately, modeling takes you with no transition from being a girl to being a business woman.
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Here in America, just as we see such incredible progress happening in one state, we see another state passing absolutely disgusting and oppressive laws against the rights of all sorts of people - transgender people, gay people, women.
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And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.
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I have one identity, and that's Israeli and Jewish. I don't view myself as an American citizen.
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Black people have been fighting for basic citizenship rights since the inception of the country.
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The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
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The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in... He has not created something, he has seen something.
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That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, all of it bad!
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If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case.
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Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.
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I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play guitar and write songs.
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What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.
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On a Terrence Malick set, your thoughts are his voice. You think you're thinking, but actually he's thinking for you. He speaks to you, and he's the voice in your mind.
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When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.
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It's tough when you started out as young as I did to look back and see how far I've come. I try to be easy on myself and go 'Look man, you were younger, you were learning; you learn, you grow.' But I'm not my best judge. I always feel like my best work is still ahead of me.
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Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.
