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 feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.
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The last part of life is a spiritual concern. You need to find a context to put your life into, that will allow you to go through it with as much grace and balance as possible, even if there is rebellion and adventure and exploration and resistance.
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I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty - I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind.
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Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.
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Some companies are already investing in women and thereby betting on a brighter future - for a workforce just waiting to blossom, for emerging economies whose development depends on this new talent, and, of course, for their own financial growth.
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I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.
