Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.

Ernest Hemingway

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• Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
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• I don't like the blame game, though.

  

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• The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.

  

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• The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.

  

  Barry Eisler
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• It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

  

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• Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.

  

  Dan Stevens
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• I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
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• I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.

  

  Pat Burns
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• My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
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• It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

  

  Larry Ellison
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• I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
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• The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.

  

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• We've never been anti-Semitic.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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• I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

  

  Patricia Arquette
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• Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.

  

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• I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
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• There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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• It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether they talk or stay silent. You never get tired of watching it. And no matter how rough the waves get, you’re never bothered by the noise the water makes by the commotion of the surface - it never seems too loud, or too wild.

  

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• I love to swim. When I jump in the water, I feel like I'm 12 years old again. It's really funny how it does that to me.

  

  Summer Sanders
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  • Water

• Abide not with dualism, Carefully avoid pursuing it; As soon as you have right and wrong, Confusion ensues, and Mind is lost.

  

  Edward Conze
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  • Lost
  • Confusion

• I am a big fan of the web comic 'Strong Female Protagonist,' illustrated by Molly Ostertag.

  

  Alethea Kontis
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• From the crown of my head to the soles of my feet I am Bolshevik, and proud of it.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
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  • Crown
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• Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Lost
  • Water
  • Week