Ernest Hemingway Quotes

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

Ernest Hemingway

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• What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.

  

  Pat Cadigan
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• I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

  

  Kanye West
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• This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
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• You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

  

  Ian Fleming
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• Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
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• It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.

  

  Randy Harrison
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• On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.

  

  Zachary Levi
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• You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can't help praising them. But everyone has their own destiny. No one can make anyone. Who reaches where and when, is all written.

  

  Rani Mukerji
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• I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.

  

  Randeep Hooda
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• Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

  

  Yehuda Berg
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• If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.

  

  Iain Sinclair
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• I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.

  

  Edmund Phelps
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• Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?

  

  Pat Paulsen
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• I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.

  

  Warren Ellis
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• The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.

  

  Karen Abbott
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• I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
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  • Moment

• There would be no Marvel without 'Swingers'; there would be no Jon Favreau directing 'Iron Man,' no Robert Downey Jr. playing Iron Man; no 'Avengers.'

  

  Doug Liman

• Even before I did stand-up, I've always been the kind of guy - and I talk about it on stage - who says I like people and I always look for the good in people. I say, 'Every person has something good about them, if you can just find it.'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
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• If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry.

  

  Warren Farrell
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• The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

  

  Arthur Balfour
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• The police, at their best, do three things; they prevent crime, they respond to crime, and they solve crime. In all three of those buckets, they need the trust of the community to do it, so I believe that if we restore the trust that we will change the way police are experiencing communities and ways that will preserve life and make everyone safer.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
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• I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Wish