F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.
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At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
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Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.
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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
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The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.
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Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
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If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.
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Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
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Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.
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The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don't know how, like George Bush senior.
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You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.
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American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
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If you don't think too good, don't think too much.
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Oregonians have many good reasons to be proud of our election system.
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If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.
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The investor would not be far wrong if this motto read more simply: 'Never buy a stock immediately after a substantial rise or sell one immediately after a substantial drop'.
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In 2010, I was an executive officer in the Navy, splitting my time between U.S. headquarters and being deployed to an international location.
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Well I ain't Dr. Phil, but I'm smart," she said. "And your shoes are cuter than his," I said, trying to sound at least semi-normal. "Yeah they remind me of Dorothy's ruby slippers, only mine are wedges 'cause I'm more fashion conscious than she was.
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While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.
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If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.
