Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football.
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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
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Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
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Some things, I think, like fairy books and secret doors, are only meant to be found by children.
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A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.
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Well, we were never coming back to Fox... that was clear.
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No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.
