F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.F. Scott Fitzgerald
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When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
Octavia E. Butler -
You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.
Katee Sackhoff -
Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.
Edmund White -
Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
Tammy Duckworth -
Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.
Garrett Hardin
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There are beauty icons that I can never be like, sorta like a Gena Rowlands - I'll never have that look. I love Giulietta Masina, the great Fellini actress. But I'm probably more Seymour Cassel. Or somewhere between Lou Reed and Nora Ephron?
Natasha Lyonne -
The sky isn't falling. We're not going to have more meteors hit because of sequestration.
Sam Graves -
I have started my own foundation. It's called Follow Your Art. It's at its infancy but my goal is to mentor teenage girls through one of the most difficult times in their lives.
Nadine Velazquez -
The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.
Karl Marx -
They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed - I, too, am America.
Langston Hughes -
Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
Larry Wall
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The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.
Alfred North Whitehead -
You have to be logical. You know? If I know that in this hotel room they have food every day, and I'm knocking on the door every day to eat, and they open the door, let me see the party, let me see them throwing salami all over, I mean, just throwing food around, but they're telling me there's no food.
Tupac Shakur -
Never be embarrassed by the things you cannot do. Be embarrassed by the things you can do and don't do well.
Len Wein -
There's no particular method or course of action that I take in order to decide who I'm going to work with besides feeling complete and total respect and admiration for that artist.
Kali Uchis -
I think a lot of ladies get quite scared about people like me, 'rock stars', and it can be hard to meet the right sort of person.
Jay Kay Jamiroquai -
You have to be just as meticulous on television as on the stage.
Bill Macy
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Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
John Steinbeck -
I really love women that manage to be amazing in their age.
Bianca Balti -
Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.
Iain Pears -
Even my life's not normal because I'm acting, right?
Natalie Portman -
It's rare that a company has an opportunity to forever transform the ways in which people interact with the world and communicate with each other, but that is exactly what we plan to do with Valve.
Cher Wang -
Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.
F. Scott Fitzgerald