"There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone."

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Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.141, Da Capo Press

A. E. Hotchner

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“We don't really have the ability to enforce the law with respect to illegal work in this country in a way that's truly effective...We haven't been able to require every employer to enter a system in which they check the work status of their employees and determine whether they're legal, and without that, we don't really have the ability to enforce the law with respect to illegal work in this country in a way that's truly effective. And that would be the single greatest additional weapon we could use if we're serious about tackling this problem.”

Source : Transcript: Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff on 'FOX News Sunday', www.foxnews.com. July 1, 2007.
“I'm much more conspicuous having long hair than I will be with it short.”

Source : Bess Wallace Truman, Harry S. Truman (2011). “Dear Harry, Love Bess: Bess Truman's Letters to Harry Truman, 1919–1943”, p.36, Truman State University Press
“I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”

Source : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) (1971). “Chagall at the Met”, Leon Amiel Publisher
“My kids and I figured out that thereâ€™s a third kind of person, and I donâ€™t know what you call them, but itâ€™s somebody who sees that the glass is always full because itâ€™s half full with water and half full with nothing, so thatâ€™s the third kind of person. I donâ€™t know what it is.”
“All great inventions emerge from a long sequence of small sparks; the first idea often isnâ€™t all that good, but thanks to collaboration it later sparks another idea, or itâ€™s reinterpreted in an unexpected way. Collaboration brings small sparks together to generate breakthrough innovation.”
“There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind ... the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it's successful; if it doesn't it has failed.”
“I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible.”

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