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.
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I would not drink bottles of water at my mom's house because I never knew how long she'd been refilling them from the sink and putting them back in the refrigerator.
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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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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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Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.
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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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I don't ever think a day is a perfect day. There's always something.
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In a way, I think science is the modern religion, and at times, I despise it as much as I despise other religions because it really will only accept stuff that fits its masculine ability to define the world.
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When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.
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And here one must not that hatred is acquired just as much by means of good actions as by bad ones; and so, as I said above, if a prince wishes to maintain the state, he is often obliged not to be good; because whenever that group which you believe you need to support you is corrupted, whether it be the common people, the soldiers, or the nobles, it is to your advantage to follow their inclinations in order to satisfy them; and then good actions are your enemy.
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The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.
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It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars.
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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.
