Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.
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I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.
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I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.
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Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.
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One thing that stays the same is my passion for music. Other than that, I've become more dedicated. I think that I really work much harder than I ever did when I first started at my craft; I'm more dedicated, and I have become a perfectionist.
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Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it's all on my shoulders and it didn't have anything to do with anybody else.
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Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.
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I am not in yesterday; I am not in tomorrow. I am right now.
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When I'm off the golf course, and my wife and I have free time, which is not very often, we really enjoy movies. I'm a movie nut; she might even be more so. Holiday in our house is the Oscars.
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There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.
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A house without love ain't a home.
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You can't be scared. You do your thing, you hold your ground, you stand up tall, and whatever happens, happens.
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Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.
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One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.
