Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
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The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
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I don't take story input from fans.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.
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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
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I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood. My parents own the shop, and I'm there all the time, that I worked in when I was a teenager. I have a child from my childhood sweetheart.
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I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me
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A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
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We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.
