F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
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A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.
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The threat of nuclear terrorism is growing faster than our ability to prevent an attack on our homeland.
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The questions to ask are, why was the decathlon so popular before, and what happened to make it fade? I notice a lot of things in general tend to follow that up-and-down trend.
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I don't condemn and I don't convert. I've been searching through books and bibles to find what this life is worth, and I've made up my mind: Love is my religion. You can take it or leave it, and you don't have to believe it. Love is my religion
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I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
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What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?
