Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.
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Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.
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We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.
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In fact, it is precisely because we have changed books that the chaos in our country has gotten worse than ever before.
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We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.
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Outside America I should hardly be believed if I told how simply, in my experience, Dover Street merged into the Back Bay.
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Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
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Never mistake motion for action.
