Ernest Hemingway Quotes

We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.

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• The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.

  

  Ted Dexter
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• I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.

  

  Gail Collins
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• The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.

  

  Valerie Plame
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• Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
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• I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.

  

  J. J. Watt
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• We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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• I think I'm very old-fashioned.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Think
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• I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Mom
  • Cool
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• The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • World
  • History

• The State of Israel was not established by anxiety but, rather, through pride.

  

  Yair Lapid
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• All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Time
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• Since we travel a lot as a team, I spend a lot of time on a plane where I like to play 'Football Manager.' I have been a soccer fan since I was 5 years old, so to be able to manage soccer teams is a lot of fun.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Team

• French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Men
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  • Bad

• At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.

  

  Ilan Stavans
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• China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.

  

  Jack Ma
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• It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.

  

  Wanda Jackson
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• I don't go to the gym because I don't have time, but I do Pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home.

  

  Kate Winslet
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  • Day

• The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• I think there are always people that you meet in your life that scare you a little, but not because of the terror in their eyes so much as their unpredictability.

  

  Joshua Sasse
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• For me, the '60s in the automotive industry was awesome. The cars are heavy, huge, rolling works of art.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Art
  • Awesome
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• All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thinking
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• One of my biggest fears - maybe my biggest weakness as a Christian - is that I have a hard time going up to a stranger and talking to them about Jesus.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Fear
  • Hard
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• We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Impossible
  • Emotion
  • Spoil