Jonathan Swift Quotes
That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own. I still think of my solo work as my 'home planet' in comics, though I've learned to listen much more to editors and trusted friends for feedback.
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I am strictly against remaking a movie.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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I wish I was a bit shorter, as I think shorter people have better walks. Freddie Fox, the actor, is shorter than me and has an amazing gait; and Tom Cruise has a brilliant run. I'm just gangly.
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I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.
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The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.
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It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era and time I was coming up, was almost equivalent to how a 'Braveheart' or 'Gladiator' movie would be.
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We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.
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No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.
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Rauner stands silent as Trump assaults our basic rights.
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Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.
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We need to reinstate the idea of federalism.
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I love mixing prints. The costume designer for 'Pair of Kings' and I have actually incorporated the trend for my character 'Mikayla.'
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They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.
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I'll never forget where I'm from, never forget my roots. It doesn't matter where I live. I'm English, simple as that.
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Life is fragile: it thrives only in a narrow range of temperatures between freezing and boiling. How lucky that our planet is just the right distance from the sun: a little farther, and the death of the perpetual Antarctic winter - or worse - would prevail; a little closer, and the surface would truly fry anything that touched it.
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If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.
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we often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large numbers of artisans starving for want of employment.
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That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
