F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940

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When you know someone you can make a little more fun of them without them getting offended.

Jimmy Kimmel

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We're sort of putting a slightly different spin on Steve Rogers. He's a guy that wants to serve his country, but he's not a flag-waver. We're reinterpreting, sort of, what the comic book version of Steve Rogers was.

Joe Johnston

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I think that one of the motivating factors was in my last year of law school: we had a competition, and I won the competition; it was judged by several of the federal judges at the time. I got a tremendous amount of encouragement to pursue litigation from them at the time.

Robert Shapiro

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I would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.'

John Hodgman

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My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade unionist and Labour supporter.

Robert Harris

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Losing a home sends families to shelters, abandoned houses, and the street.

Matthew Desmond

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When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.

Michael Caine

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Around the holidays, or anytime I'm going on vacation, I try to bump up my cardio or lose a pound before leaving.

Stacy Keibler

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The river of time may fork into rivers, in which case you have a parallel reality and so then you can become a time traveler and not have to worry about causing a time paradox.

Michio Kaku

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On some level, some of the challenges end up being similar, which is when you have a very emotional scene to shoot. As an actor, you have to prepare a certain way, but you also have to prepare a certain way when you're a director because you have to be sure you're telling the whole story.

Miriam Shor

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I will continue to work with the Republican Party to try to encourage primaries.

Mitt Romney

WorkPartyWillTryRepublican

I was in high school in 1953 when the Committee of One Million circulated a petition urging that Red China - one third of the world's population - be excluded from the United Nations. And I remember I refused to sign it, at 14 or 15 years old.

Brian Dennehy

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