F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
Let's borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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I'm a risk taker, so I have come to accept that at times I will fail. To me, that is better than not trying at all.
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I'm a martial artist. I've boxed all my life. I work out. I studied Hwarangdo, which is a Korean style.
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The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love.
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How tragic it is that so often we stop everything just as we reach the starting line. We must move past the narcissistic preoccupation with getting the love we think 'works' for us. The point of love is to make us grow, not to make us immediately happy. Many of us have forsworn the chance for the deepest love in reaching out for the easier one.
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Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
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Let's borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained.
