Ernest Hemingway Quotes
I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.
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Men have not stacked the decks against women.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
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One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
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By nature, men desire the beautiful.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.
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All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
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I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.
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Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.
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Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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I think we could all do better sometimes of not overextending ourselves as much.
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Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.
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I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.
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And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.
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They say that when a man faces his destiny, the destiny ends and he becomes the man that he really is.
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I don't know why I'm drawn to anti-heroes, but I certainly am.
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There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It's the same for me with acting.
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No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
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I have lived through the best years of this country's history. The next generations are going to see war and social calamities. I am glad I don't have to live on into them.
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I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.
