Ernest Hemingway Quotes
There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers.
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Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I'm not interested in celebrity.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
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You don't get second chances in the real world.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
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We need to continue our full support of the nascent Iraqi government by helping to rebuild their economic infrastructure and maintain security while training the Iraqi security forces.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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I just want to get the bad guys but if I can’t see them, I can’t shoot them.
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I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!
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Quite frankly, I think Hitler will win. I do not say that Hitler will be able to invade this country. It is a very difficult channel to cross. Lots of people have tried it, including Napoleon...I would not have gone to war without having Russia on our side. It was an idiotic thing to do.
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There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers.
