Jonathan Swift Quotes
I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.
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Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes.
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I'm a girl: that means I fight like a girl. And there ain't nothing meaner.
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Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let's take up the appropriations bill first, not wait until four days beforehand - no one has mentioned anything, and, all of a sudden, somebody looks at their watch and says, 'Hey, in four days, the government is going to run out of money.'
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Single mums do come in for a hard time. Society is incredibly judgmental. I know this.
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The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.
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I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.
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What you get in the Cold War is 'the wilderness of mirrors' where you have to figure out what's good and what's evil. That's good for John le Carre, but not me.
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When I worked in the White House for President Carter, we tried to do comprehensive tax reform and we made some progress, and other presidents have as well.
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The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
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I see a bright, bright future for the Republican Party and conservatism in general.
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The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.
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I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.
