Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.
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It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.
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I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.
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We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.
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Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
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When I first started out in cycling, if there were two girls there, that was successful; but now, if there are 20 girls there, it's just unbelievable. The growth of the sport is just incredible.
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.
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If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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When I was a kid, I wasn't looking at the small-budget films myself. I was looking at 'James Bond' and all the major films, so I still have that energy. I still love those films.
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God is decisively drawn to the humble.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all the contradictions within, and lets the reader draw his own conclusions.
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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
