Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
Dan Quisenberry
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I learn from Larry Ellison every day. I've said this before: how is it to work with someone who thinks out of the box? Larry doesn't see the walls at all; he does not see the box. He is an absolute, true visionary. And to be honest, I always find myself in a box! I'm comfy in my box. I've furnished it; it's lovely.
Safra A. Catz
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
Oscar Niemeyer
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
Samantha Fox
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I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I knew that if I didn't make some changes, I was going to go in the wrong direction.
Aaron Schock
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My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
Zooey Deschanel
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A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
Van Morrison
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
Francesca Annis
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Sometimes we have to take on jobs that we don't love, and I always encourage any creative person to use those as the fuel to do the things that you do love to do, even if they don't pay.
Dan Bucatinsky
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No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
Karl Lagerfeld
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My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
Dana Perino
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I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.
Larry Wall
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
Edmund White
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Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.
Lady Starlight
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I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.
Harmony Korine
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In September 2005, I was three things: the media blogger for 'FishbowlNY,' a maniacal Daily Show fan, and the only person to smuggle a tape recorder and camera into a big Magazine Publishers of America event featuring Jon Stewart interviewing five hotshot magazine editors in an unbelievable bloodbath.
Rachel Sklar
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I've seen a fair bit of the States and the rest of the world, and I'm convinced that there's nowhere I'd be happier, there's nowhere I'm missing out on because I'm in N.Y.
Garth Ennis
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When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged.
Ha-Joon Chang
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Experiences is just paying attention as time passes.
Erin McKean
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
Dana Brunetti
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My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
Edith Head
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There are no 'come shoot me' clothes.
Charles M. Blow
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We still go over calls, ... It is hard in plain clothes to jump in because people will ask, 'Who is this guy?'
Ron Blair Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.
Jonathan Swift