F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.
Quotes to Explore
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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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New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.
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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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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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The pretty girls get all the good stuff. Oh, God. So not true. I unlearned this after years of coaching beautiful clients. Yes, these lovelies get preferential treatment in most life scenarios, but there's a catch: While everyone's looking at them, virtually no one sees them.
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I like comedies in general.
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Throughout my work with family and child support organizations, one thing that has stood out to me time and again is that getting early support for a child who is struggling to cope is the best possible thing we can do to help our children as they grow up.
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One of the toughest guys in the world is Randy Couture - he is the true epitome of what a tough guy is.
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Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.
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Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.
