Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

Ernest Hemingway

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• You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.

  

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• The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.

  

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• I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.

  

  Dakota Fanning
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• 'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.

  

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• Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

  

  Madchen Amick
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• That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.

  

  Gary Oldman
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• Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.

  

  Hale Irwin
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• I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.

  

  Odette Annable
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  • Love
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• If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
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• I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.

  

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• Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

  

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• I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Always
  • Fan
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• Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Stop
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• I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

  

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• Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
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• I always thought I was going to be a great poet, and go and live in New York, where the great poets lived - you know, where Whitman had walked the streets.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
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• I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.

  

  Walter Kirn
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  • Up

• U.S. adversaries exploit power gaps. It's easier for Russia to invade Ukraine with irregular forces out of uniform, the so-called 'little green men,' than to send a conventional army that would challenge NATO.

  

  David Ignatius
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• There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when we are least able to pay for them.

  

  Iain Sinclair
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• The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

  

  Aristotle
  • Believe
  • Ideas
  • Minds

• One day, the infielders were having a pretty bad time and were making some bad throws to me at first base. After digging a few out of the dirt, Joe Orengo called over to me, 'Atta boy, John, you look like a big cat.' Some of the writers overheard the remark and asked Joe about it later. The nickname has stuck with me ever since.

  

  Johnny Mize
  • Cat
  • Stuck
  • Nickname

• Man, the most complicated of the animals, has a relatively short gestation period. Beyond that, he will be born, unlike most mammals, in a ridiculously helpless state.

  

  Willard Gaylin
  • Men
  • Animal
  • Born

• Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Should
  • Born
  • Boat