F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
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Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
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I had no idea about nutrition. I thought by eating salads you'll stay skinny.
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As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me. Then when you see a film later, it can be infuriating, really disappointing. I've been very lucky, though, and so many of my early experiences were great.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
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Mothers and daughters find in each other the source of great comfort but also of great pain. We talk to each other in better and worse ways than we talk to anyone else.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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It's very rare to have a patient who isn't absolutely delighted when you say, 'I read your feedback. The session didn't go well. You actually got more upset, and I made about three really horrible errors.' If you do that from the heart and not as a gimmick, boy, it's a wonderful thing.
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There was a time when all I cared about was the next game, the next party, the next tee time.
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but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game
