Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.
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I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.
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I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.
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Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another.
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We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.
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My husband and I vowed that after we married and settled down, we would become foster parents - a vow we kept and one that has enriched our lives greatly.
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Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.
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People know Detroit for the cars, but the suburban areas of the city are really beautiful. It's much more inhabitable than people think. Many believe it's like Berlin at the end of World War II.
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The next world war will be fought with stones.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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I don't want to be a part of any Bollywood movie.
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
