Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

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• I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Myself
  • Forget

• We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Children
  • Heart
  • Happiness

• You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Know

• I don't have a real home. When I got 'Avatar,' I sold everything that I owned because I knew it was going to be a long journey. I've got two bags, and that was four years ago, and I've been working ever since, and I've still only got two bags - a bag of books and a bag of clothes. That's about it.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Long
  • Real
  • Home

• I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play shows. It's one of those things that when you go home, you're still the nerd you were when you left, and your parents still get to yell at you about cleaning up your room, and your girlfriend still drags you to the pet store.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Home
  • Parents

• The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Idea
  • Racial
  • Gathering

• You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Real
  • Drama
  • Epic

• I'm not super-patriotic, but the U.S. is where I live, and it's the passport that I carry.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Live
  • Patriotic
  • Carry

• You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • People
  • Different
  • America

• Somehow, I realized I could write books about black characters who reflected my own experiences or otherworldly experiences - not just stories of history, poverty and oppression.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • History
  • Black
  • Poverty

• Rooting for the offense is the safe way to go. You win either way.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Way
  • Win
  • Safe

• I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so I think it is possibly the end.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • She
  • Mother
  • Think

• A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Painting
  • Find
  • Tough

• A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.

  

  Manfred Eigen
  • May
  • Model
  • Theory

• The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Political
  • Improvement
  • Obstacles

• Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Responsibility
  • Enjoy
  • Lose

• My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Wife
  • Couple
  • Year

• Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

  

  Pietro Mascagni
  • Dangerous
  • Narcotics
  • Modern Music

• I was a little too young to be a hippie.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Young
  • Little
  • Hippie

• I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Little

• If you receive empowerment, it's about bodhicitta. If you receive teachings, it's about bodhicitta. If you practice teachings, it's about bodhicitta. Everything comes down to bodhicitta. The essence of practice is about bodhicitta. When you sit down to do your practice, what you practice is bodhicitta.

  

  Garchen Rinpoche
  • Practice
  • Receive
  • Teachings

• I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.

  

  William Saroyan
  • People
  • Church
  • Literature

• Dine on little, and sup on less.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Little
  • Less
  • Prudence