Ernest Hemingway Quotes
The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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I will know him by his eyes.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.
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If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.
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The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.
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I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.
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South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
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When I'm home, I go back to the same routine that I've had since I was a kid.
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I want to go to college for literature. I want to be a writer. I mean, I love what I do, but its not all I want to do-be a professional liar for the rest of my life.
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People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.
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Our tax code becomes so absurdly complex every 32 years that we have no choice but to scrap it and re-write. The 32-year period is up in 2018. So the time has come. History tells us that we're going to produce a fairer, simpler tax code by 2018.
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The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.
