Ernest Hemingway Quotes
My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
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Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
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I love Canada. Canada is a great neighbour. Canada has been a great friend and neighbor for many, many years.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.
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The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
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I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
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I think celebrities suck.
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It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.
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President Trump named Rand his favorite writer and 'The Fountainhead' his favorite novel.
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In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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Men of patriarchal cultures have been committing heinous acts in the name of their God ever since they created a god for themselves. It seems that the earlier, goddess-oriented, nature-centered religions were far less cruel.
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I mean, my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.
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My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.
