F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.

  

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• I am a very reclusive, private person.

  

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• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

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• I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.

  

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• If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

  

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• There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.

  

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• When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.

  

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• I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'

  

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• I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'

  

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• I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.

  

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• Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.

  

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• I think that sometimes you can be an example of what to do and what not to do, and I think most of the time I'm an example of what not to do.

  

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• As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.

  

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• 'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.

  

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• Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

  

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• Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?

  

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• You've been acting like Jesus owes you a favor, but he's a little smart for you to fool.

  

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• When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool.

  

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• There are sacred moments in life when we experience in rational and very direct ways that separation, the boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality. We can experience that stasis is illusory and that reality is continual flux and change on very subtle and also on gross levels of perception . . . When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.

  

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• I'm cool with Jay-Z. Jay-Z is genuinely my friend.

  

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• I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Attention