Mariel Hemingway Quotes
I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
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In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.
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He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.
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I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it a great deal of thought. I think it's a logical point they could make, but it's only an academic one.
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I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.
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Remind me of the place. The wind breathing through the trees and the sound of coconuts dropping on the mud. Ta-dup ta dup. The hairy mangrove crabs and the turtles. The evening sky looking like a big mash up rainbow with all these colors leaking down on the sea. The fresh smell of fish and sand in the mornings. Cascadura jumping up from the ponds like living clumps of mud. Dew skating down from the big dasheen leaves as if they playing with the sunlight. A horsewhip snake slipping down a guava branch as smooth as flowing water. Cassava pone and seamoss drinks.
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In the second half of the twentieth century, the idea became increas ingly dominant that attaining a superior growth rate and thus increased prosperity should be the central objective of public policy.
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I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.
