Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have preconceived notions and stereotypical ideals about each other, but we do. And we wanted to create a movie about people whose lives crash into each others' accidentally.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny.
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Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.
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I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
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The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.
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Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.
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I love the theater so much, and it's where I feel most comfortable. I love the people and the community.
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I'm not interested in how well someone can sing. It's what you're singing that interests me.
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Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.
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The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
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My grandmother has kept all of his stuff in a drawer. This one notebook was particularly chilling. He's [howard Brookner] writing to his parents knowing he has a death sentence; his movies are how he'll live on.
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In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating world, the rich get ever more quickly richer while the poor get ever more speedily poorer.
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In 1974 I was trying to get my first little band together. That year marked kind of a traumatic point in my life, but I had a lot of support from friends and family and a lot of good things ended up coming out of it.
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I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution.
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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
