Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.
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Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.
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If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, 'I don't think this is a scene where your character cries.' And all I can say is, good luck with that!
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The statement that I made and that I think I will continue to make is that racism and bigotry isn't just relegated to the Southern region; it permeates the history of our nation. It's not to say that we haven't made progress. Obviously we have with our first African American president, and I never thought that would happen in my lifetime.
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One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
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Writing for me can be homework. I do get a lot from it in the end. But I hate doing it.
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North Korea is the errant teenage child, aren't they? Or toddler - they're holding their breath until they get their way.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma.
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I know that I do have influence over the people who watch me, and it's quite a pressure. I have to stay positive, and while I would never use the words 'role model', I am mindful of the responsibilities that come with a substantial viewership.
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In A-ball, you're either going to move up, or you're going to get released. That kind of paranoia played a lot into the players' mentality leading up to the events of 'Eight Men Out.'
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.
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Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.
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It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance that antique temples, Roman basilicas, and even the cathedrals of the Middle Ages are not the works of single personalities but creations of entire epochs.
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Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose and have done it all my life. I do it when I am interested in something.
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Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.
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Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.
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I used to imagine working as a White House staffer some day, so it was pretty amazing to be there... realizing another dream.
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Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
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Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.
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That which costs little is less valued.
