F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
You will walk differently alone, dear, through a thicker atmosphere, forcing your way through the shadows of chairs, through the dripping smoke of the funnels. You will feel your own reflection sliding along the eyes of those who look at you. You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
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I didn't want to just do a show where my character stood out and other characters were flat or one-to-two-dimensional. I wanted everybody to have meat.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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To be honest, the core reason why I became an actor was that I didn't want to go to school. That's where it started. I hated opening my history books and my English books, but then, of course, you grow older. I went to film school in New York, and that's when you really realize that you have to grow up now. It's not child's play anymore.
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Launching a successful product or startup has little to do with luck. Any business that gains traction on the market is the result of very careful strategizing and market analysis, not to mention the development of an original product or service.
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You're not going to please everybody. I've just got to do whatever I feel is right, just use my judgment.
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We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.
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Dione Lucas has been obscured by larger-than-life personalities like Julia Child, but she had it going on. She is like the horse that came in second place, whose name we can't remember. It takes more than just one horse to make a race.
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I always make a joke that they transplanted Martina McBride's eyes and put them in my head.
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You will walk differently alone, dear, through a thicker atmosphere, forcing your way through the shadows of chairs, through the dripping smoke of the funnels. You will feel your own reflection sliding along the eyes of those who look at you. You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.
