Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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You've got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I've kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through.
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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
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The D-Day moniker wasn't invented for the Allied invasion. The same name had been attached to the date of every planned offensive of World War II. It was first coined during World War I, at the U.S. attack at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, in France in 1918.
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If you believe you can make a difference, then you will make a difference. Believe in yourself, your family and your community and you will win.
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I don't consider myself a social entrepreneur, but I'm thrilled to be doing good, if that's what I'm doing.
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Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them.
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We need to reaffirm that politics is not merely compatible with economic progress and development in the 21st century, but essential to it.
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It's always a good idea to let the audience make up their own minds.
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I actually started snowboarding when I was 7 years old, so I felt very comfortable auditioning for a snowboarding movie, and I thought that would give me some leg up.
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I just don't like being overweight.
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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
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I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.
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All of a sudden I'm in the major leagues and we're traveling from town to town. I see the other players dressing different every day. I've got only one suit and I keep wearing it over and over. I'm really embarrassed.
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I always want to make my records sound great so they'll stand the test of time, and that takes a lot of work.
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The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.
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Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of nature; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning.
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What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians... All publication s masquerading under the name of ragtime are not the genuine article... That real ragtime of the higher class is rather difficult to play is a painful truth which most pianists have discovered. Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music... Joplin ragtime is destroyed by careless or imperfect rendering, and very often players lost the effect entirely by playing too fast.
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Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.
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Tis said, fantastic ocean doth enfold The likeness of whate'er on land is seen.
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Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.
