Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Never confuse movement with action.

Ernest Hemingway

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• In uniform, I had to make judgments about the best course of action in combat when the only choices were 'bad' or 'worse.' As a member of the media, I only had to decide how to get the best 'shot' - preferably without getting shot.

  

  Oliver North
  • Bad
  • Action
  • Best

• It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Funny
  • Thought
  • Clothes

• You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • You
  • Action
  • Idea

• Scott Foley was always fun because he's a very funny guy. So I liked working with him a bunch.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Fun
  • Guy
  • Funny

• Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Funny
  • See
  • Others

• All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Road
  • Courage
  • inspirational

• I go running three times a week - outside in the park, come rain or shine, and I hate every moment of it. I hate everything about it. But I know it's important for health reasons and the reason why I run, in particular, is because my stage work is like cardiovascular work so I don't want to lose my breath on stage.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Work
  • Important
  • Why

• The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I'm an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Work
  • America
  • Myself

• I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Work
  • Amazing
  • Voice

• Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.

  

  Faith Prince
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  • Inside

• It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
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• Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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  • World
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• I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• I've never seen hard work fail.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Work
  • Hard Work
  • Fail

• I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Work
  • Kids
  • White

• Overall when you work in fashion, you're always in a rush. You're always a little late, always in a hurry. Every single moment's important, so you never have enough time to do what you want to do. It's ridiculous.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Time
  • Work
  • Important

• Because it started as an offshoot of al Qaeda in Iraq, ISIL has long been subject to U.N. sanctions, and all countries have a legal obligation to freeze its assets and prohibit its business dealings. But countries around the world need to do more to make these sanctions work.

  

  Samantha Power
  • World
  • Work
  • Long

• I worked on live studio drama, which was one weird aberration in the 1980s. I worked on the 'Battle of Waterloo,' and my job was to reload the Brown Bess muskets - the only time the audience realised it was live was when somebody leant on a button and plunged the whole studio into blackout.

  

  Phyllida Lloyd
  • Time
  • Live
  • Job

• The last thing you want is an injured actor. That, or having to use a stuntman too much.

  

  Wade Eastwood
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  • Actors
  • Use

• And with iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations - none of which I know how to work - information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.

  

  Barack Obama
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  • Mean
  • Xbox

• The reason it's called 'The Heart of Robin Hood' is that he starts off not having a heart - or certainly not being in contact with it. And through a series of stories, he learns to discover that he has one. He becomes much more dramatic as a character, to be honest, because there's something rather too smug about the endless do-gooder.

  

  David Farr
  • Heart
  • Character
  • Hood

• When do we put on the lingerie? Always at the beginning of the relationship - first couple of months, strutting around the bedroom wearing a teddy. Yeah, six months later, you've stopped shaving your legs and you look like a teddy.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • Relationship
  • Beginning
  • Couple

• Never confuse movement with action.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
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