F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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I'm trying my best.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
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I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
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A friend of ours, the wife of a pastor at a church in Colorado, had once told me about something her daughter, Hannah, said when she was three years old. After the morning service was over one Sunday, Hannah tugged on her mom's skirt and asked. "Mommy, why do some people in church have lights over their heads and some don't?" At the time, I remember thinking two things: First, I would've knelt down and asked Hannah, "Did I have a light over my head? Please say yes!" I also wondered what Hannah had seen, and whether she had seen it because, like my son, she had a childlike faith.
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I've made a lot of game-winners.
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An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.
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I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward.
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Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.
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A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
