Jonathan Swift Quotes
That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
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If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
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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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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
