Jonathan Swift Quotes
Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,--to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination.
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
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I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.
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We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.
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As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.
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My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
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There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
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I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.
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I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an urgent need for it to be done.
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My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.
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The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
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It's taken my entire life to negotiate how to identify, and I've done a lot of research and a lot of studying, i could have a long conversation, an academic conversation about that. I don't know. I just feel like I didn't mislead anybody; I didn't deceive anybody.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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The key to ultimate succcess is the determination to progress day by day.
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Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,--to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination.
