Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.
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I'm curvy.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
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The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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I think of 'Mommy' as very simplistic or not simplistic, but I wish for the style to actually work with what you see onscreen and what you feel in that very moment. I hope we did not disrespect the characters by being too flamboyant when it's not necessary.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
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Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.
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My current motto is to go for it, whatever it is that inspires you.
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When you’ve done everything you can to train yourself for competition, you’ll sleep well when the tournament is over, win or lose.
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As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.
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We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.
