Jonathan Swift Quotes

What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he? But rather than they should excel, He'd wish his rivals all in Hell.

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• When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.

  

  Aaron Patzer
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• I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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• How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.

  

  Barry Schwartz
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• I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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• Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
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• I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Always
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• To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.

  

  J. G. Ballard
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• Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Business
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• We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Education
  • Organization
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• I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'

  

  Taylor Swift
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• A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
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• Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Moments
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  • Mood

• People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • People
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• I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Like
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• I think what's going on with gorillas is pretty bad. The fact is that you can buy gorilla meat in London any day you want it.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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• In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
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• Fear created the first gods in the world.

  

  Caecilius Statius
  • World
  • Fear
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• They say what I did was ego-driven and name-dropping …Damn right it is. Who am I going to write about? People I didn't meet?

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • People
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• There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Heart
  • Story
  • Secrets

• Writing the first draft is like hitting the beach on D Day. You don't stop to mourn the dead or comfort the wounded. You get off the beach because, if you don't, you'll die there.

  

  Matt Hughes
  • Writing
  • Stop
  • Die

• My mother says to me, when I'm making a new movie, she says, "Oh, is Steve Buscemi in it?" I'd say, "Yeah." And she, "Oh, then it's going to be a good one." I swear to God, she says that every time. And when I say Steve's not in it, she says, "Oh."

  

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  • Time
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• I've always been criticised for how filthy my material is. Victoria Wood said to me once, 'I wish I was a bit ruder, like you,' and I said, 'Well, I wish I was a bit cleaner, like you.'

  

  Jo Brand
  • Wish

• I'm a massive fan of the Stones, and I don't think anybody should deny them the right to carry on making music. I just wish they wouldn't wear leggings.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Music
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• What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he? But rather than they should excel, He'd wish his rivals all in Hell.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Wish
  • Poet
  • Grieve