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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He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.
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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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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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During the decade following the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA, the problem of translation - namely, how genetic information is used to synthesize proteins - was a central topic in molecular biology.
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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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Maintaining the trust of the consumer is critical to our business. We live and breathe only one thing, which is wanting to connect consumers with great local businesses, and I don't feel we can do that if we don't have effective ways to prevent gaming of the system.
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The only films that really matter to me are the ones where there are characters whose interactions are moving.
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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.
