Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'
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When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
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Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
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It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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I wasn't born, I was ordered from room service.
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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
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I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.
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I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
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The NSA is forbidden to 'target' American citizens, green-card holders or companies for surveillance without an individual warrant from a judge.
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I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it's an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.
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I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.
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I was born in Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh, as my parents are both pandits from there. But I was brought up in Chandigarh.
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Instead of shooting arrows at someone elses target, which Ive never been very good at, I make my own target around wherever my arrow happens to have landed. You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.
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My mother wanted to be president of the United States. She wanted to be the first woman president. She was born in 1924. Instead she had eight children.
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
