Jonathan Swift Quotes
That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.Jonathan Swift
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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.
Kangana Ranaut -
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.
Nate Powell -
I am strictly against remaking a movie.
Mahesh Babu -
A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
Madame de Stael -
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.
Jack Whitehall
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I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.
BeBe Winans -
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.
Vera Farmiga -
It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.
Malcolm McDowell -
Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
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.
Fat Joe -
We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.
Famke Janssen
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No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.
Karl G. Maeser -
Rauner stands silent as Trump assaults our basic rights.
J. B. Pritzker -
Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.
Alan Coren -
I love mixing prints. The costume designer for 'Pair of Kings' and I have actually incorporated the trend for my character 'Mikayla.'
Kelsey Chow -
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.
Bruce Babbitt -
When I called 'Cut 4 Me' a mixtape, I was thinking about a few elements: One is used instrumentals. The project is more centered around introducing you to an artist; it's not meant to be seminal. It's 'Hi,' 'Hello,' a thing that you first hear.
Kelela Mizanekristos
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Always question your fear, Anh. there's almost never a good reason to be scared.
Anh Do -
… That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory. Just a wish to go back home - someday, somehow. …
Catherynne M. Valente -
I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
Lewis Carroll -
It wasn't sexual in its element. I wasn't being exploited. I was doing what happened. It was very challenging because I played Phyllis from 15 years old to 53 when she died of breast cancer.
Lesley-Anne Down -
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
Oscar Wilde -
That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
Jonathan Swift