Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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I'm a proud family man.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.
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I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
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I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Hear the other side.
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It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.
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Let nobody bribe you away from being yourself.
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I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.
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Every time I go on stage, it's like a first date. I put on my best clothes, shave, and get as handsome as I can. Then I say the cutest things I know to say, and I become the very best Bill Medley I can be because I want to win my date over. My audience is the date that I want to impress every time.
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It's a town you come to for a short time.
