Ernest Hemingway Quotes
Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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I think I'm funnier in my writing than in person.
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A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.
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Religion was quite a thing in our house - we were Baptists. Some Sundays I went to church three times. If there was a talk on missionary work in the afternoon, I could be there all bloody day. But religion took its first big knock after Dad died.
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From the moment we wake up each morning to the time we hit the pillow at night, we hear what people have to say, but are we really listening?
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I've gotten books published. I've met famous people that are very nice. I look back and I say, 'Wow. Thank you, God, for giving me this gift. And thank you for helping me to keep going.'
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Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.
