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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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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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 won the crown for what I am - I'm certainly not going to let go of that!
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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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I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want.
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He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously.
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In my photographic work I was always especially entranced... by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out of nothing on the exposed paper, as memories do in the middle of the night, darkening again if you try to cling to them.
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Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
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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!
