F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
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Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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We believe in the vision of 'Make in India,' and our proposed joint venture with Rafael is a step in this direction.
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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.
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I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
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During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem would go away.
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There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible. I am in a thoroughly painful state of agitation. This does not keep me from looking quite serene in front of my entourage; I am like an unmarried girl laboring with child. Once I have made up my mind, everything is forgotten except what leads to success.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.
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I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
