Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
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Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.
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When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.
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The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
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I was unpopular my whole life.
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I prepare to the point where instinct take over.
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We have a fee-for-service system that rewards quantity, not quality: profit-driven care rather than patient-driven care. So doctors order more tests, more procedures, and more drugs - we actually consume more prescription drugs in the U.S. than the rest of the world combined.
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
