Jonathan Swift Quotes
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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I still have a young attitude.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.
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I read stories aloud at every stage. I listen to my writer friends when they kindly offer criticism. I listen to my husband when he tells me something doesn't seem right. I have my mother's boyfriend, Loring Janes, read to make sure I get everything right with the machines and guns.
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If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
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KISS is the number-one American band in gold-record sales. In the world, only the Beatles and the Stones are ahead of us. Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
