Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a second, for the first lasted him from night to morning, indicating a sound body and a mind free from care; but his master, being unable to sleep himself awakened him, saying, "I am amazed, Sancho, at the torpor of thy soul; it seems as if thou wert made of marble or brass, insensible of emotion or sentiment!

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• I trust no one - that microphone, that book.

  

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• I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.

  

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• Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

  

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• I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.

  

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• Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.

  

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• The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

  

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• In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It's been 15 years since I've been getting married every year.

  

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• He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

  

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• When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.

  

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• It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.

  

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• I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.

  

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• The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explore and, in general, they get more complicated, so you get to bring all your crazy life experience to the table.

  

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• And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.

  

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• Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

  

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• I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do!

  

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• I had a moment in the Library of Congress among the presidential papers. I opened a folder, and there was an envelope in it. The front of the envelope was facing the table, so I didn't know what was in it. I opened it and out spilled all this hair. I turned the envelop over and it says, 'Clipped from President Garfield's head on his deathbed.'

  

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• Fascism denies that numbers, as such, can direct human society. It denies that numbers can govern by means of periodical consultations: It asserts the unavoidable fruitful and beneficent inequality of men who cannot be leveled by any such mechanical and extrinsic device as universal suffrage.

  

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• Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply.

  

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• I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

  

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• Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a second, for the first lasted him from night to morning, indicating a sound body and a mind free from care; but his master, being unable to sleep himself awakened him, saying, "I am amazed, Sancho, at the torpor of thy soul; it seems as if thou wert made of marble or brass, insensible of emotion or sentiment!

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
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