F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
The extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime turn out worse or better than we had prophesied; particularly in America that is to be expected. The extraordinary thing is how people keep their levels, fulfill their promises, seem actually buoyed up by an inevitable destiny.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.
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How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.
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I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!
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Personally we look forward to an old age of dissipation and indolence and unreverend disrepute. In fifty years we shall be ninety-two years old. We intend to work rather hard during those fifty years and accumulate enough to live on without working any more for the next ten years, for we have determined to die at the age of one hundred and two.
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The extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime turn out worse or better than we had prophesied; particularly in America that is to be expected. The extraordinary thing is how people keep their levels, fulfill their promises, seem actually buoyed up by an inevitable destiny.
