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Wayne Hemingway

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I'm not gonna worry about what people think about me. I'm too busy. I don't give a hoot.
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GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON
They don't have to give a hoot for what happens to the poor.
DAVID BECKMANN
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GEORGE S. PATTON
I've finally graduated from 'I don't give a hoot.'
KRISTIN CHENOWETH
I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn...
ELMORE LEONARD
The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.
MINORU YAMASAKI
I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the ...
BOB WOODWARD
I don't care about the critics. I took a lot of nonsense. I got stuck with silly labels like ...
GERRY COONEY
Investors don't give a hoot about what's going on (with legal issues). As a sideshow, it's kind of i...
PATRICK COMACK
[About Ernest Hemingway] He’s a peach of a fellow and absolutely first-rate.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
XOSHA ROQUEMORE
Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered...
MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO
I am excited to bring elements of my lifestyle to the masses with the Rich Gang, and with Lil Wayne ...
BIRDMAN
I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable th...
JIM HARRISON
There is more that can be done about this situation than what the city has done. I understand we don...
ABDUL MOTLIB
So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.
MARK TWAIN
When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to hav...
EDWARD STEICHEN
When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The onl...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
This party's a hoot,
FRED SMOOT
I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European...
GAVIN BRYARS
I don't worry about what other people think of me. It's one of the things I most admired about my da...
CHRIS KYLE
The first time I met Wayne Gretzky... he never said anything back.
GORDIE HOWE
I am not a Hemingway aficionado.
MARGAUX HEMINGWAY
Hoot,
JIMMY BUFFETT
When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to hav...
EDWARD STEICHEN
I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John... I&#...
JOHN WAYNE
I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.
TIFFANY MADISON
Everyone’s mind has sort of a slum division—a flirtatious spot that doesn’t give a hoot about ...
PAWAN MISHRA
I thought you'd be interested in these things as a government man. Ain't you mixed up in the prices ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
If the Obama regime gave a hoot about 'humanitarian crisis,' the Obama regime would not have...
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.
DAVID GUTERSON
John Wayne never ever disappointed his fans, because he was a cowboy.
VINNIE JONES
he called you a hoe cuz he couldnt stop thinking of you with someone else and that scared him he cal...
WOW
Television has been very kind to me, I will never knock any opportunities they give me. I've had som...
SUSAN HAMPSHIRE
Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I have played a handful of rounds of golf with Wayne Gretzky.
TOM GLAVINE
Soccer couldnt afford training camps or anything like that.
BRUCE MORROW
The Chicken Clucking Contest is a hoot.
VICKI MORESE
Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN
He's reading Hemingway and writing his life story. It's so gratifying to see him reading Hemingway.
PATRICIA STEVENS
He remembered the time he had hooked one of a pair of marlin. The male fish always let the female fi...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I neve...
PHIL HARTMAN
Hemingway was a jerk.
HAROLD ROBBINS
It's amazing to me that I have people in a high-intensity aerobics class who can't keep up, but Wayn...
KATIE MAST
Hemingway invited him to Havana for some weekends and the movie is really about what happens when he...
ROGER DONALDSON
I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.
ARAVIND ADIGA
Driving will never be away from me - I can't just give it up. It's all I've ever done, a...
JIMMIE JOHNSON
Curtis played against Wayne. He's intrigued and very excited about this chance.
DON MEEHAN
Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
(on Ernest H...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
You can't do this. You have to give me a chance to fix whatever it is I've done. What have I done?
HUNTLEY FITZPATRICK
It's a pretty ambitious movie for what it is. Hemingway is a great writer and a great character. If ...
ROGER DONALDSON
It's a pretty ambitious movie for what it is … Hemingway is a great writer and a great character. ...
ROGER DONALDSON
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ROGER DONALDSON
I have put a bet on Wayne to be top scorer in the tournament.
DEREK BOOTH
When did Jimmy Stewart not play Jimmy Stewart? When did John Wayne not play John Wayne? But that'...
JOHN MELLENCAMP
We have never stopped talking about adequate public facilities but there has never been anything con...
EDWARD TAYLOR
The Oakland County prosecutors have never been shy about charging people, ... If they have reached a...
WILLIAM MITCHELL
I've seen John Wayne's 'True Grit' about 10 times.
JOHN GLENN
Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limit...
FRANCES O'GRADY
Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real care...
JAMES ROLLINS
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Wayne's a little attached to that hat," Waxillium said. "He thinks it's lucky."
Wayne: "It is l...
BRANDON SANDERSON
I am excited about the spring season. We have a chance to do something we've never done before, be a...
BUD NASON
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
GORE VIDAL
I don't give a toss about writing really. It's a bit ironic that the things I'm really into are musi...
IRVINE WELSH
Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Flying is such a joy. You just want to hoot.
CATHY RIGBY
I will never give up. I never have, even when times have been terrible.
MICHELLE MONE
What they in essence have done is give those schools permission to talk to them about potentially tr...
FRED MIMS
I have never gotten my nails done.
YUAN YUAN TAN
We give people political labels, sexual labels, and religious labels. But in the process, we strip t...
MARK BATTERSON
They still have a lot more to give. I have been happy with what they have done so far.
DANIE CARO
I'm from New York, and yet I've done only one film executive-produced by Spike Lee and have ...
VING RHAMES
I'm the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.
DONALD TRUMP
Hemingway invited him to Havana for some weekends and the movie is really about what happens when he...
ROGER DONALDSON
There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are p...
BILLY SUNDAY
But these girls never give up and that's what I love about these young kids.
HEATH SAGER
It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
There's only a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
WILLIAM KENNEDY
To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I wo...
M. AGEYEV
We have absolutely no doubts about this deal. We stand behind Wayne Gretzky 100 percent. He's been a...
MICHAEL BUDMAN
What we've always said is that every child here is going to be treated with unconditional positive r...
DAN GALLAGHER
Wayne is a very good team and I think we were intimidated.
JEFF THORNE
These documents are forged. I have never done anything to a youngster.
SADDAM HUSSEIN
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, wi...
CHARLES DICKENS
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, wi...
CHARLES DICKENS
I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, w...
CHARLES DICKENS
Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I n...
SALMA HAYEK
Warning labels (on cigarette packs) are one thing, but they don't give the company license to lie.
MADELYN CHABER
Actually, 'Wayne's World 2' I kind of liked. I think 'Wayne's World 2' does ...
ADAM MCKAY
I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews.
MAUDE ADAMS
We were extremely pleased with Bob, he couldn't have represented us any better. Wayne will have big ...
BILL LANESEY
You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels...
BILLY SHERWOOD
I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labe...
DAN HICKS
Hemingway changed prose; so did Salinger and Nabokov.
DAVID LIPSKY
I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, d...
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A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again afte...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
By "guts" I mean, grace under pressure
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency. The second is war. Both brin...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imaginatio...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.Not my fault.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that dist...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a b...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt l...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enoug...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunat...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Growing up, I didn't really know who the Tuskegee Airmen were.
ANTHONY HEMINGWAY
Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both brin...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and lik...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to w...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Never mistake motion for action.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The digni...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I am not a Hemingway aficionado.
MARGAUX HEMINGWAY
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and a...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I loved to dance and went to Studio 54 at least twice a week. But I always felt nervous around the p...
MARGAUX HEMINGWAY
I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY