F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.
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We run to win, not just to be in the race.
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I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman - and they do.
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It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.
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That will only happen if I have a bout of amnesia or if I feel like mooning someone in the audience.
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I adore Clinique's All About Eyes cream. It depuffs the eyes and makes me look like I actually slept eight hours!
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Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.
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Work is what structures adults' lives: it gives us purpose, focus, a set of responsibilities, and an identity. So when people are not participating in the labour market, all sorts of other things often start to go wrong.
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And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.
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Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
