Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
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I don't think the elite class is only speaking the good English.
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I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
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Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.
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There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.
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Anyone that has been lucky enough to go to the races and witness the magnificent spectacle of a competitive race will know how people like me can instantly fall in love with the power and beauty of race horses in full gallop.
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A good idea is not enough. It must be the fit of a particular idea for a particular entrepreneur and, ideally, unfair advantages in why said particular entrepreneur is going to address said particular idea.
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I wouldn't call myself a dinosaur.
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I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.
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There are so many examples of talented actors working today, no matter how they live their private lives. I'm lucky that people believe me when I'm in character.
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I've always believed about brands and media that the mistake sometimes that's made is to think you're just going to take what you've been doing and kind of re-purpose it into the new platform. I don't think that ever works because consumers look for different experiences in different media formats.
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I'm inspired by antiques. I look at things that have a wink to the past but are also reinterpreted in some way and made to feel modern... and maybe that's what I am.
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I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.
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If, for a moment, it seemed that September 11th could be identified with Iraq, the illusion was short-lived.
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But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.
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I have to tell you that I love people. When I see the kids coming up and see what they have done with the music, it's amazing.
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I'm very happy for others to engage in conjecture, but if I was ever conscious of what I'm thinking about when I'm writing, oh my God, I'd be totally lost.
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My family was totally non-religious. There was no question we were Jewish, but we were not observant.
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My parents did not care whether I saw an opera or understood a statue; all that could be considered in time, in the future, for operas and statues belonged to urban culture, and my kinfolks said any person with any kind of background could acquire a city civilization, but that few city people could ever learn the culture of a rural country.
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One cannot live for ever by ignoring the price of coffins.
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Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect: It tends to create the inability to accept new ideas.
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The smallest coffins are the heaviest.
