F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
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I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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The efficiency, credibility, and liquidity of the financial markets have been foundational to the largest economy in the world.
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.
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I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.
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When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.
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Us comics guys tend to get really good at the things we draw a lot. I'm good at creepy old forests, Victorian houses, underground goblin cities, and beautiful but creepy fairies.
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You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
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Most people have desires that are great and they want to do great things, and they don't want to be negative people or they don't want to live in pessimistic attitudes, but the problem is a lot of them were not given the right tools. They were not given the right blueprint of how to build a building.
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To truly live a creative life means that you will need to experiment in as many different fields as possible.
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I have no middle wardrobe. I go from the suit to jeans.
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It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
