Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.
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My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.
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Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.
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The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.
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Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.
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I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.
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I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski -
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'
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People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.
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I am a perfectionist.
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Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying.
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Musical 'fusion' projects have earned themselves a bad name, but that's mainly because they often involve pop artists conscripting orchestras to play unimaginative backdrops to their acts. What's really exciting is when you spark off a dialogue between very different musical forces.
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Our land-healing ministry really is about cultivating relationships: between the people, the loving stewards, and the ecology of a place, what I call the environmental umbilical that we're nurturing here.
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Most people never listen.
