Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.

Ernest Hemingway

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• The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

  

  H. Rap Brown
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• I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Parents
  • Stop
  • Beginning

• You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • You
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• I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.

  

  Ilana Glazer
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  • City
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• I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.

  

  Forest Whitaker
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  • Real
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• The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • Night
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• When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Rest
  • Lonely
  • Broke

• I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Real
  • Relationship

• I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, award shows. I just don't want to say something stupid. But as soon as I step out on that stage, or as soon as I show up to a date, it all goes away, and I just have a great time with whoever I'm with.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.

  

  Lactantius
  • Nature
  • Son
  • Island

• I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Actor
  • Studied
  • Lee Strasburg

• I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Bad
  • Light
  • Change

• I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Talk
  • Meetings
  • Fast

• Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Work
  • Enjoy

• 'Limbo' has been one of the greatest hits of my career. A great response all over the world, not just Latinos but people in Europe and America.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • People
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  • Great

• I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
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• Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.

  

  Ice T
  • Value
  • Looking
  • Shock

• The diamond scintillates less brilliantly when the fingers move rapidly than when they undulate and pivot. Glossy leaves throw off less light in a high wind than under the calm wavering of a breeze. Brusque movements of the eye cast a single gleam, and slow movements add a thousand others.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • High
  • Light
  • Single

• If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Life
  • Good
  • Trying

• Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Life
  • Experience
  • History

• Search for a discipline within freedom! Don't let yourelf be governed by formulae drawn from decadent philosophies: they are for the feeble-minded. Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind...

  

  Claude Debussy
  • History
  • Freedom
  • Advice

• My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Opportunities

• Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • History
  • Murder
  • Fascism