Jonathan Swift Quotes
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.
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I worked at a hospital parking cars and getting folks in and out of the hospital as they would come in for their appointments.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke.
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Style is something very individual, very personal, and in their own unique way, I believe everyone is stylish.
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Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
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If we don't love ourselves, we would not love others. When someone tell you to love others first, and to love others more than ourselves; it is impossible. If you can't love yourselves, you can't love anybody else. Therefore we must gather up our great power so that we know in what ways we are good, what special abilities we have, what wisdom, what kind of talent we have, and how big our love is. When we can recognize our virtues, we can learn how to love others.
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Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
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I've actually been given a great gift. When I walk into an audition with a director, I'm carrying no baggage. They haven't seen me in anything, even though I've done nine films.
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I think the combination of action and the combination of comedy are two really, really good genres to meld together.
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Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than the dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by religion.
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In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.
