Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.
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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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When you face a 'performance' that might provoke the 'I'm scared' response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It's more fun than 'Dancing with the Stars!'
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
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I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.
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It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.
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I think that when you first read material or you first read a script or story and know you might be playing a part, it's important not to see yourself because it should be a challenge enough that it doesn't come easy.
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I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.
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Because, you know, it's never a hard work when you enjoy yourself. Look, I've been here since 57 years, and I don't have to explain why I've stayed so long. I always enjoyed it.
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God looketh upon any thing we say, or any thing we do, and if He seeth Christ in it, He accepteth it; but if there be no Christ, He putteth it away as a foul thing.
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What would God have me do with my life?
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God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
