F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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I get homesick.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
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The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
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Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
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Hold, or cut bowstrings.
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I'll just let the hair speak for itself. It's got a Twitter account, so it actually does more speaking than I probably do on Twitter.
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O masters, lords and rulers in all lands How will the Future reckon with this Man? How answer his brute question in that hour When whirlwinds of rebellion shake all shores? How will it be with kingdoms and with kings - With those who shaped him to the thing he is - When this dumb Terror shall rise to judge the world. After the silence of the centuries?
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When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to go into book publishing.
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A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.
