F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.
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I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
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My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.
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Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
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I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.
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I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.
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We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there's always something beautiful that you can find.
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I went to USC where there's a huge Greek system. The school is in a pretty seedy area, so the only social life is at these fraternities. I never joined one myself, but I had a lot of friends who were in frats and I would go to those parties. I had a healthy dose of being around frat life while I was in school.
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The future is too good to waste on lies and life is way too short to care for the damnation of others as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong.
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Every one knows that there are no real forests in England.The deer in the parks of the great are demurely domestic cattle, fat as London alderman.
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Tell your daughters and their daughters that if they want to be a firewoman, they can be a firewoman. If they want to be an astronaut, they can be an astronaut. If they want to run their own business or run for president, they can do whatever they put their mind to.
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Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.
