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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Baseball wasn't necessarily my first sport in terms of liking it. I'd never played baseball or softball growing up.
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The future of Cuba is one earned by a country that has resisted for over 50 years against the most powerful empire on Earth. The resilience of its people made this triumph materialize.
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I'm pretty happy not to be an insider anymore. There's just no common ground. I don't know if it's distrust or that the politics is substantially more partisan than the public. But there's no pressure to make a grand bargain on fiscal matters, on growth, on anything.
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It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
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At an early age I discovered the beauty in pictures in 'Vogue' magazine and Ebony magazine, and I would read 'The New York Times.' I had to make my own world within my world because I was an only child.
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A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.
