F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.F. Scott Fitzgerald
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
Dan Marino -
You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.
Natalie Dormer -
I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
Karen Joy Fowler -
Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
Carl Hiaasen
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Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
Pablo Picasso -
I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.
A. R. Rahman -
The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
Caity Lotz -
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
Carl Bernstein -
In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
Patrick J. Kennedy -
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
Harold MacMillan
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
Calvin Klein -
I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
Abby Wambach -
All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
Walter Payton -
Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
Patricia Marx -
I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
F. Murray Abraham -
As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
Gaby Hoffmann
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
Raghav Bahl -
As I stood alone and forsaken, and the power of the sea and the battle of the elements reminded me of my own nothingness, and on the other hand, the sure flight of the birds recalled the words spoken by Christ: Not a sparrow shall fall on the ground without your Father: then, all at once, I felt how great and how small I was; then did those two mighty forces, pride and humility, happily unite in friendship.
Soren Kierkegaard -
People fight to preserve their frozen beliefs and then complain of the cold!
Vernon Howard -
I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject.
Paul Wolfowitz -
The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
Pardis Sabeti -
There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.
F. Scott Fitzgerald