F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he has passed....
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When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
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A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.
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There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!
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Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
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Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.
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Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
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It was just me and my mum growing up, and my mum's always said that's why I'm so mature. We were best friends, and if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't even have started athletics, because she wanted me to have a hobby.
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My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
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We did not become libertarians because we are altruists.
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I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
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I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
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My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of someone who struggled with things like that, you look for the common thread. Is there a pattern? Is there an inheritance of pathology in some way? That haunts me.
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Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?
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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
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Why is partying and having a good time bad?
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You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.
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All of us wish we had an Alice. I wish I had an Alice.
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After doing 'War and Peace,' I suddenly got lots of seductress roles. It's easy to put people into a category after you've seen them in one thing that you feel fits with them. But I'm trying to make a conscious decision to do different things.
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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
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Perhaps the clearest and deepest meaning of brotherhood is the ability to imagine yourself in the other person's position, and then treat that person as if you were him or her. This form of brotherhood takes a lot of imagination, a great deal of sympathy, and a tremendous amount of understanding.
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Fighting for and defending the values from the pulpit is critical. You can't love the Creator, and disrespect the creation.
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And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he has passed....
