Jonathan Swift Quotes
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
Quotes to Explore
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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Most people inside the bureau believe that the blown opportunities to head off 9/11 would not recur today. Even among the FBI's doubters, few disagree that the bureau has come a long way.
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I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe.
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Every time I'm in Canada I feel more Swedish, and every time I'm in Sweden I feel more Canadian. I belong in both places and I love them both equally. It's funny because the Swedes claim me as their Swedish pride and the Canadians call me their Canadian girl. I'll take it all.
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Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.
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Bernard Hopkins? He fights scary dirty. I mean, he did what he had to do in his career.
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I have a couture body.
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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
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I still like to sit in a room and play games all day, so I'm a kid, really.
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It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.
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I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
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Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.
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I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
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I want to separate my professional life from my personal life. I want to live a normal life and be a normal mother.
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If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to character, he deserves no admiration. The resemblance which he ought to obtain is that of the soul; that alone matters; it is that which the sculptor or painter should seek beneath the mask of features.
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I grew up looking to all those Jewish athletes for inspiration.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.
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When you write a novel, you never have to be in the service of the reader. My only concern with my books is that the world that's created be as logical and whole as possible.
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It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
