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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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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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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Sometimes I don't know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.
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Ambedkar was the first person to attain escape velocity and run away to US.
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I am absolutely convinced there should be financial and political incentives for states to declare. You shouldn't be the pariah of the world if you say you have Ebola, but in reality this is what happens.
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I'm what you might call centre-right but I've always disliked the right wing as much as I've disliked the left wing.
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Earlier today, the White House released President Bush's tax return. Not surprisingly, under dependents, the president listed Iraq.
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I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it's part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.
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Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.
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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.
