Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

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• I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.

  

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• I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.

  

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• If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

  

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• You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.

  

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• A guy running, you know, fifteen, twenty stallions that are two years of age, never been touched by a human before, and you've got to start castrating them, that's pretty intimidating.

  

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• I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.

  

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• I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.

  

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• We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.

  

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• It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.

  

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• I know I'm not the consummate Bollywood heroine. But I'm working hard on it.

  

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• Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.

  

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• Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.

  

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• You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.

  

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• Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.

  

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• I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.

  

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• I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.

  

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• I actually used to smile a lot in pictures. I think I only stopped smiling when I got into fashion. Fashion stole my smile!

  

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• For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.

  

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• A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out we're not going to get killed. I think a lot of things work that way with photographs.

  

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• Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
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