F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
Once a change of direction has begun, even though it's the wrong one, it still tends to clothe itself as thoroughly in the appurtenances of Tightness as if it had been a natural all along.
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When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don't think there's any question that New York City's very tough laws have reduced violence.
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I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don't want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option - it isn't.
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You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.
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A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.
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I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.
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Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.
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When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.
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It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?
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There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.
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Skryabin comes so close to the twelve-note system that it seems probable he would have taken it as the next logical step.
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Γνώμης δ᾽ ἀπούσης πῆμα γίγνεται μέγα,βαλοῦσά τ᾽ οἶκον ψῆφος ὤρθωσεν μία.
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Todo es nada, pero después, Después de haberlo sufrido todo.
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I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with some of the most difficult people in our society. Buddhism was accessible and helpful for these individuals.
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We goaltenders tend to be very proud bastards.
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I'd love to do something in a more humanitarian context. I think it will come to me.
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So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience.
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Once a change of direction has begun, even though it's the wrong one, it still tends to clothe itself as thoroughly in the appurtenances of Tightness as if it had been a natural all along.
