F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pass up that one. Oh! One other show I love to watch is 'Suburgatory.'
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
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Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.
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I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.
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Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric does not seek meaning through extension, it accepts the enigmas of confinement. It strives for a rapid unity of impression, an experience rendered in its wink of immediacy. And so too with the short short.
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So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the process of digging, then piecing together details like a puzzle.
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Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
