F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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The government in Turkey, which represents the powerful, traditionalist mass, is very comfortable creating policies tailored only for their supporters.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I think I was about 14 when I did my first makeup. I was like, 'Wow, I really like this what do you call it? Makeup thing?'
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
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The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.
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I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.
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My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.
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Since my life has been wayward and impulsive, always a search for something that is not there, and then disillusionment, I believe I need all the excuses I can make.
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When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.
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It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances.
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I want to get away from couture just being done for a picture or for a single moment on the red carpet. I want to try and convince women that couture can be worn in the day and that there's a reality and relevance there, because that's what Mr. Christian Dior wanted.
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It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.
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A lot of racers have some of their best days when they're sick.
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It's not what people do that matters, it's why they do it.
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I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.
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Everything on a boat has a different name than it would have if it weren't on a boat. Either this is ancient seafaring tradition or it's how people who mess around with boats try to impress the rest of us who actually finished college.
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'Every drama school in the country turned me down, and so I was lucky to study drama at all, even if it was lowly Birmingham University. But even when I came out with my degree, my mother promptly insisted I go straight to secretarial college to have something to fall back on, just in case – which didn’t exactly fill me with confidence.'
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Bob Hope: Let's not do any jokes we didn't plan on, eh.
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Polka dots are fabulous.
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I think there's a lot of catastrophe in this world and a lot of cruelty and a lot of carelessness.
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Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.
