Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.

Miguel de Cervantes

• Truth
• History
• Father

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• No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Matter
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• I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Great
  • Food
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• I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Long
  • Happy
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• I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Think
  • Evil

• As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.

  

  Karen Mills
  • People
  • Believe
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• I was rubbish at school.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • School
  • Rubbish

• I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Life
  • Live
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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.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Good
  • You

• I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Different
  • America

• I want people to tell me the truth.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • People
  • Truth
  • Me

• Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

  

  Ovid
  • Where
  • Promises
  • Millionaire

• During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • People
  • Time
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• Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.'

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Working

• Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Simple
  • Thoughts
  • Eye

• I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an accountant with my family upbringing and love of music.

  

  Zarin Mehta
  • Life
  • Music
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• Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Same
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• It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • You
  • Always
  • Role

• Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • She
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  • Beauty

• Any change in routine was terrifying, even if it involved less violence rather than more.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Violence

• Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television.

  

  Dylan McDermott
  • History

• The point here is not just that an image represents God as having body and parts, whereas in reality he has neither. But the point really goes much deeper. The heart of the objection to pictures and images is that they inevitably conceal most, if not all, of the truth about the personal nature and character of the divine Being whom they represent.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Heart
  • Character

• Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

  

  Sid Caesar
  • Truth
  • Comedy
  • The End

• I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Football

• History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Truth
  • History
  • Father