Ernest Hemingway Quotes
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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I just want my films to work. The hit or flop verdict really affects me. I seriously analyse what went wrong if a film turns out to be a dud!
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Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery... I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it's how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that's a wonderful thing.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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I am supposed to set an example to young players.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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I trust no one - that microphone, that book.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
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An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.
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The Army was my bread and butter.
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Major Clark is one of the most outstanding officers of his grade in the U.S. Army... an officer of impeccable character with a rare blend of personal qualities and professional attributes which uniquely qualify him as a soldier-scholar.
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I never collected cars as a financial thing; I wanted to go racing, so I chose the cars I wanted to go racing with. Like the Ferrari 250 GTO. I bought it because it absolutely fulfilled everything I wanted from a car.
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Healthcare is the only civil system where new technology makes prices go up instead of down.
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There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
