Ernest Hemingway Quotes

I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant. I've fought two draws with Mr. Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody's going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless I'm crazy or I keep getting better.

Ernest Hemingway

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• I think there are plenty of Libertarians that are socially conservative.

  

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• There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.

  

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• A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

  

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• I'm really nearsighted, which has served me well.

  

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• I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

  

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• Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.

  

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• I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.

  

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• All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.

  

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• I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.

  

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• Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.

  

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• So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.

  

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• There's no people like show people.

  

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• You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.

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• In high school, I had a really difficult time just loving myself. It's weird; I feel like in the world we live in today, you're not supposed to be like, 'I'm beautiful,' like that's a conceited thing to say.

  

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• Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.

  

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• I look up to a strong woman; maybe that's why I fell for Gaga. She works incredibly hard and is very strong and inspirational like Mom, with a great work ethic.

  

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• In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the 'Feminine Mystique.'

  

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• I want to grow. I don't want to get stuck doing the same thing over and over and think I'm the best at it.

  

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• A few days of idleness have completely sickened me, and given me what is called the blue-devils so severely, that I feel that the sooner I go to work and drive them off, the better.

  

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• I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant. I've fought two draws with Mr. Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody's going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless I'm crazy or I keep getting better.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Thinking
  • Crazy
  • Quiet