F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.

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• Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
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• A new untruth is better than an old truth.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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• I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

  

  Barry Hannah
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• I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
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• My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

  

  Sam Walton
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• This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.

  

  Walter Murch
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• I am from Karnal, India.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • India
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• The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Time
  • World
  • Truth

• Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.

  

  Hamish Bowles
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• I still do the same things, but it's nice. If people recognize you, generally everyone's very respectful, very lovely, but I wonder what it's like for real celebrities.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
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• She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.

  

  Kaia Gerber
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• Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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  • Out

• No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
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• I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.

  

  Adam DeVine
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  • Comedy
  • Forever

• What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.

  

  H. R. McMaster
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• When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • World
  • Women
  • You

• Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney.'

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Gentleman

• I think a lot about my obsessive need to document things and what it's going to mean in the future.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Future

• I'm not the man to say that failure's sweet,Nor tell a chap to laugh when things go wrong;I know it hurts to have to take defeatAn' no one likes to lose before a throng;It isn't very pleasant not to winWhen you have done the very best you could;But if you're down, get up an' buckle in-A lickin' often does a fellow good.

  

  Edgar Guest
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• I was about 15 years old, and I needed a job, and somebody I know - I don't even know who it was - said that there was a television show that needed a presenter and that I should go and audition for it, so I did. That was a show called 'The Word,' and I got that job.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
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• I'm very well known in the industry and relatively well known by people who are aficionados and what not, but outside of that - no.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
  • People

• I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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