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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It's all the same to me. The Yenisei swirls, the North Star shines, as it will shine forever; and the blue lustre of my loved one's eyes is clouded over by the final horror. - The House on the Fontanka, 19 August 1939
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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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Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches.
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people don't need. I'm anti-consumerism; I own four pairs of black Levis and that's it.
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Every good laboratory consists of first rate men working in great harmony to insure the progress of science; but down at the end of the hall is an unsociable, wrong-headed fellow working on unprofitable lines, and in his hands lies the hope of discovery.
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That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
