Jonathan Swift Quotes
"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.
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I never accepted the premise that meetings themselves were bad.
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I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.
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You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.
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He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
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I'm a Wisconsin kid, so I like brats and burgers and stuff like that. Cheese curds.
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No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
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Once I'm working on something, I don't do anything else. I'm mono-track.
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My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.
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'Whatever it takes' is my opinion of method acting and, indeed, any other kind of acting. Look at Brando and De Niro. But it's not my cup of tea.
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My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.
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Once a Supermodel, always a Supermodel.
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I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.
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I understand shipping - you have to expect to pay for the stamps or for the freight company - but what's this handling they always have? How much does handling cost, anyway? I don't want a lot of people handling something I'm going to buy before I get it. How much would it cost if you didn't handle it before you sent it to me?
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Real faith rejoices in the promise of God as if it saw the deliverance and was enjoying it.
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Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves.
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I took my iPod to the Apple store here in Manhattan and asked them to replace the battery. And they explained to me that Apple does not offer a service to replace the battery in the iPod, and my best bet was to buy a new iPod.
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It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha.
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“First Law of Heroics.” The Monaciello grinned up at a confused September. “Someone has to tell you it’s impossible, or the Quest can’t go on."
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"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.
