F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
A writer like me must have an utter confidence, an utter faith in his star. It's an almost mystical feeling, a feeling of nothing-can-happen-to me, nothing-can-touch-me.... I once had it. But through a series of blows, many of them my own fault, something happened to that sense of immunity and I lost my grip.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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I like seeing girls throw down.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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I will take the subway and look at certain women and think 'God, that woman's story will never be told. How come that lady doesn't get a movie about her?'
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
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The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.
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Starting in 2005, my first session in the legislature, my colleagues elected me to be Democratic whip.
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I'm aware of what's missing from my life.
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In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.
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I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward.
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In the field of astronomy in the mid-'60s, quasars were very sexy objects - gigantic, star-like masses about which little was known. I was a graduate research student at Cambridge working towards my Ph.D. and chose quasars as the subject for my thesis. Part of my project involved surveying the sky for them using a radio telescope.
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A writer like me must have an utter confidence, an utter faith in his star. It's an almost mystical feeling, a feeling of nothing-can-happen-to me, nothing-can-touch-me.... I once had it. But through a series of blows, many of them my own fault, something happened to that sense of immunity and I lost my grip.
