Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
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As soon as I could talk, I chose shorts to wear.
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Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it.
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In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.'
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a lot in her life, and her career has spanned over 50 years. To me, that's what you call a legend.
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Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.
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As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a truly universal hegemony.
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I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.
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My favorite was always whichever sport was in season. I think these days it's almost saddening to see kids who are 10 or 11 and are forced to choose one sport and specialize in that sport and play that sport year-round. By playing different sports... you become a better all-around athlete.
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'It is no hardship whatever,' said Aillas. 'You have never strained at the deed. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and suddenly you find the idea incredible. Do you not sense a taint of unreality?'
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The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
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The moral precept to adopt...is: Judge, and be prepared to be judged.
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When we started, there were KRAFTWERK and TANGERINE DREAM, and both bands also became very very strong internationally but in a different area, in a different field. They were doing, like, experimental kind of music, and KRAFTWERK were amazing, while we played just traditional rock.
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We've all grown up with 'Ozzie and Harriet,' 'Father Knows Best,' 'Eight Is Enough.' White families have always represented the universal family.
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There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion.
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Just making a good movie is hard to do.
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Children who remember their past lives offer the most compelling evidence yet for reincarnation.
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When the headaches, all the members partake of the pain.
