Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Every sport has its own cast of characters.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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The battle against cancer has made me strong. It's like winning a war! When I was diagnosed, I was told by doctors my kidney, liver and other organs could fail. It was tough. I didn't know if I could save my life. But I was positive, and because of that, the doctor told me that I would be a man who would never have cancer.
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When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.
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I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
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I always have a book that I write during competition. I need it with me, just to read back and reflect and look forward. If I'm feeling anxious, it helps me.
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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
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God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.
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I've always had to work hard for what I've got and to stay where I was.
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I saw how the regulation I called for made things worse, didn't help consumers and simple competition was better. And I started praising business and occasionally criticizing regulation.
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It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.
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I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources.
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If you get a bad script, then you start expending energy trying to make a silk purse of a sow's ear. When the script's as good as those on 'Game of Thrones,' say, I don't think there was a single occasion where any of us thought there was a bad scene.
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A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.
