Jonathan Swift Quotes

Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

Jonathan Swift

• Distance
• Order
• Old Men

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• Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up the void in my life. So there it is. My company is a spouse I will never cheat on, and my mother completes me as a son. I think I have a full family unit of my own.

  

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• The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.

  

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• I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

  

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• I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

  

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• I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.

  

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• In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.

  

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• An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

  

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• But it's not just a game of finding literary references.

  

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• I was kind of an unhappy kid. I always felt like a cynical New Yorker trapped in a little kid's body. I started to get some pretty bad anxiety disorders around puberty, which totally did not work with growing up a mile away from the beach. I started cutting my own hair.

  

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• I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music.

  

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• I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.

  

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• As an Indian, I would like to back my government.

  

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• I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.

  

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• After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.

  

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• The drunk kids, the catholicsThey’re all about the sameThey’re waiting for somethingHoping to be saved

  

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• People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it.

  

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• Yeah I'm in love with the girl in the four-wheel driveChrome steel bumpers and red step sideShe has a large time in her large machineMan I wonder how she gets up in that thingIt casts a big shadow sittin' in the sunShe's got it revved up rockin' ready to runAnd someday soon I'm gonna climb right upAnd take a little ride in her big ol' truck.

  

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• What you did was the greatest thing accomplished by any private soldier of all of the armies of Europe.

  

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• I think 2014 for me is going to give me the possibility to do even bigger things than anyone has done. I want to change the party scene - like, stop just being a DJ with lights, a big LED screen, and oh-look-at-me speakers. There's way more to a party, and I think everyone knows it. I want to make it special.

  

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• The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically, expresses an aspiration for order.

  

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• Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Distance
  • Order
  • Old Men