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Jonathan Swift Quotes

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: irish
Birth: November 30, 1667 - October 19, 1745

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Life Age Experience Man Information

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.

You Debate Security Personal Matter

It's interesting, as I said on the last tour in America, the audience actually came out, they had to have been the kind of fans who listened to my music via their parents, you know what I mean?

Music Parents Interesting America

If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight.

Michael Bloomberg

Money Fight Legacy Believe Better

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

Humility Think You Level Being Does

Without doubt, without hesitation, I choose gardening over the gym. I can't stand going to the gym. It doesn't appeal to me at all. Give me gardening every time.

Time Gardening Me Stand Choose Gym

Climbing Mount Everest was the biggest mistake I've ever made in my life. I wish I'd never gone. I suffered for years of PTSD and still suffer from what happened. I'm glad I wrote a book about it. But, you know, if I could go back and relive my life, I would never have climbed Everest.

Life Mistake Book My Life Wish You

The word 'mixology' adds $3 to the price of any drink.

Price Drink Word Any Adds

Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over my lifetime my ear has been well-tuned to that accent. Any first generation kid has that wonderful gift from their parents.

Christopher Heyerdahl

Father Parents Gift Generation Kid

The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move.

Process Meaning Understand Visualize

I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff.

Anthony Hopkins

Stars Live People Me Crazy Think

Hip-hop basically controls the world through fashion, through music, through language, through culture. It's basically running the world, no matter what anyone wants to think, and that's just the way it is.

Music Culture World Fashion Think

Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them.

Comfortable Public Speaking Speaking

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