F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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I still have a young attitude.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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Even if I tried to fill up the stadium in Ramat Gan, I don't think I could.
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My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.
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I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic fairy-story - the larger founded on the lesser in contact with the earth, the lesser drawing splendour from the vast backcloths - which I could dedicate simply to: to England; to my country. ... I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama.
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If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn't have happened.
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There was some justice in his pain.
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I really believe that the virtual world mirrors the physical world.
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A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.
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Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.
