Jonathan Swift Quotes
If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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You get more insight as you get older, on everything.
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If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.
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It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
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While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.
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By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies that the Golden Era which had prevailed until then was beginning to disintegrate. And by 1953, it had come to an end. Hollywood was a dismal, tragic place.
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Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.
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India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.
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Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I write. I'm very focused on the logical progression of the story, and every character has a role to play.
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While trade agreements are negotiated in secrecy, behind-closed doors, we have learned enough from leaks to know that the result of passing TPA to 'fast track' these trade agreements would affect everything from food safety to environmental protection to consumer financial protections.
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Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.
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I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.
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So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.
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Man, if you're gay we can be friends. If you're straight, we can be friends. I'm not gay, I don't plan on being gay, I don't condone it and I'm not sayin' I'm against it.
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Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.
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Just because you can watch half-nude women on afternoon television or gay men kissing on the streets of nearly any major city does not mean America is free, as complacent liberals might think, much less too free, as conservatives often suggest. Just because most dissidents are left alone doesn't mean there is no police state, for that would be convenient indeed for the police statists: the idea that people ought not complain so long as they have the right to do so.
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If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
