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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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound - strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow.
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What you put out is already on its way back to you.
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If the schooling system does not rapidly close the gap between what it does, and what it should do in response to the demands of the 21st century, it will simply become irrelevant.
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I’ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they’re still interesting to me as pictures. If you turn a picture that’s not well organized upside down, it won’t work.
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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.
