Ernest Hemingway Quotes

I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.

Ernest Hemingway

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• SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
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• What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
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• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

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• Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • History
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• I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Amazing
  • London
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• Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
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• What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Me
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• Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Democracy
  • End
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• Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • God
  • Me
  • Start

• What worries me is that conservative thought is moving quickly, but we're kind of the pachyderms in Congress because things move so slowly.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Moving
  • Thought
  • Worries

• With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Running
  • Internet
  • Become

• I have lived the life of the entrepreneur, and so I know the pain they are feeling. I know the daily ups and downs they go through. You know, they have their highs and lows sometimes within a matter of hours in a day.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Day

• There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Man
  • Feet
  • Boots

• I've gotten to learn what's important in life and what's not important, and what to spend energy on and what not to. I don't have a family like some of my teammates, but I have a lot of things pulling at me that I have to put my energy into.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• The marshalling of those resources in order to obtain the maximum war effort for Australia, and a maximum degree of help and cooperation for Great Britain and the sister Dominions, is the primary objective of the new Department.

  

  Harold Edward Holt
  • Great
  • War
  • Help

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• The Foxy character and Inga Marchand are two different people. My fiance calls me Inga. No one around me calls me Foxy. I go to church every Sunday. I go to Bible study every Friday night. I'm saved.

  

  Foxy Brown
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• You are only as good as the people you dress.

  

  Halston
  • People
  • Good
  • Dress

• Living a frugal lifestyle gives you the opportunity to invest more money towards your future.

  

  John Rampton
  • Money
  • Future
  • Opportunity

• I want the 'Book of Basketball' to do well if only so I can shop an absolutely ridiculous topic for my next book: like, a book about basketball cards, or an unauthorized biography of A. J. Daulerio.

  

  Bill Simmons
  • Book
  • Basketball

• I think my biggest fear is trying to communicate in Spanish with someone I don't know and them laughing at me or thinking it's awful, but for the most part, people I've encountered just see that I'm trying, and they're helpful. It's helpful to me to communicate with people.

  

  Megan Nicole
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spiraling round for terror, and holding each other in embrace, there in a darkness that outpassed them all, and left them tiny and daunted. So much, and himself, infinitesimal, at the core of nothingness, and yet not nothing.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Night
  • Lost
  • Sun

• I've never done this from a standpoint of, 'I want to be famous.' I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Done
  • Singing
  • Famous

• I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Trying
  • Stars
  • Glad