Ernest Hemingway Quotes
Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.
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Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.
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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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Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
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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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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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I think some people forget sometimes I do have to go to the grocery store; I do enjoy going out to dinner. I have to get my oil changed from time to time. I do all the normal things. I cut my grass. People kind of forget that normal part, that we do a lot of the stuff that everybody else does, but we all have our talents, and mine is in football.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.
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The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
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Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
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[John Calvin's] Humanist training makes him an excellent writer. What is more, he is as relevant today as he was 500 years ago.
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... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them - not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaustion.
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Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.
