Ernest Hemingway Quotes

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

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• Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

  

  Lady Randolph Churchill
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  • Happy
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• I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.

  

  Maira Kalman
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  • Humor
  • Tough

• I've also gotten messages from men and women who are not the most attractive, in their minds, or are self-conscious about their weight. They're thanking me for doing songs like 'Proud Mary' and shaking a tailfeather, because they say I seem real comfortable in my skin and it made them want to be comfortable in theirs.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
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• One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.

  

  Ralph Merkle
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• It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

  

  Carla Bley
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• I'm curvy.

  

  Camila Alves
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• The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country's interest. I have never done that in my life, and I will never do it because I, you know, I was brought up as a very patriotic Egyptian, and this is not just going to happen.

  

  Wael Ghonim
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  • Up
  • Country

• God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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  • Believe
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• I think everybody goes through things in their life where they're like, 'This does not make any sense,' or 'I don't understand why this is happening,' but that's part of the journey of faith.

  

  Taya Kyle
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• 'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.

  

  K. Flay
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• What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.

  

  Sai Baba
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• Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.

  

  Owen Hart
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• I like all things natural, and I love being Indian. So clothes-wise, I love wearing Indian. Does my wearing a salwar kameez instead of a dress make me less of an actor, less of a person?

  

  Vidya Balan
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• If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.

  

  Victoria Justice
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• Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

  

  Fanny Brice
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• There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.

  

  Lactantius
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• In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
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• Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.

  

  Parker Stevenson
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• You have to play the character in the best way you know how and do what you need to do in order to bring that character to life and not worry about the millions of people that you may be disappointing!

  

  Emma Stone
  • Character
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• It's important to be true to the events, but the most important thing is to get to the essence of the experience. Not to be bogged down in an academic way by a notion of the truth. First of all, the truth is an illusive and spurious concept.

  

  Mike Leigh
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  • Truth
  • Way

• If your ancestors cut down all the trees, it’s not your fault, but you still don’t live in a forest.

  

  Pam Oliver
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  • Tree
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• A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.

  

  Lao Tzu
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  • Tree
  • Unbending

• That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
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