F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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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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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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My style, in terms of what I wear, is kind of representative of the music.
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought. And that’s a problem because privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.
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Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
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Those who are trying to remain healthy with HIV/AIDS are in the most vulnerable period of their lives; that's no time to leave them without access to care.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.
