Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.
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My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.
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You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.
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Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.
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The theme of luck comes up a lot. It's something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren't lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I've always been fascinated by that.
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He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
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If there ever could be a justifiable war in the name of and for humanity, a war against Germany, to prevent the wanton persecution of a whole race, would be completely justified. But I do not believe in any war. A discussion of the pros and cons of such a war is therefore outside my horizon or province.
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Whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower...
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This is serious, and you gotta keep your mind open in case an idea comes along-you want there to be some room for it to fit in.
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Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong.
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It's funny, I see Wendy Kaminer herself as a kind of guru - a guru of the fashionably cynical set. Yet she uses the term "guru" to minimize my career, to marginalize my thoughts and to trivialize my work, as well as those of others.
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To cover up actual lack of knowledge, the tale develops an explanation which amounts to divine intervention. It is an easy and, to the primitive mind, a plausible and satisfactory way to explain something of which nothing at all is known.
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I've lived a very colorful life, and I've said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I've never apologized for them - and I won't.
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I cannot stress the importance of pausing to take a few deep breaths throughout the day. It's simple and effective.
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He said we were full of shit. But in a nice way.
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Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.
