Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Miguel de Cervantes

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• I watched a lot of soap operas like 'General Hospital' and 'Days Of Our Lives.' When it came to movies, my parents were quite strict. They would watch 'Flash Dance' but wouldn't let us see the whole film because Jennifer Beals' character was a stripper. It was so funny when I finally saw the whole film. I thought she was a ballerina!

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • She
  • Character
  • Parents

• Being Human clothing was first launched in France, Belgium and Spain, where the brand's philosophy of look good, do good is connecting with people and not just Salman Khan.

  

  Salman Khan
  • People
  • Good
  • Philosophy

• I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • City
  • Born
  • New

• I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • School
  • Home
  • Law

• Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • People
  • Vintage
  • Some People

• My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fans

• I've got to say, my parents have always been very supportive. I used to sit in my bedroom and read every liner note and listened to records. My parents are rock fans.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Parents
  • Rock
  • Always

• Bollywood is huge. Anything that's made in large quantity will evidently overshadow others. But that won't stop artistes from making albums. A person who has faith in his music will go ahead.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Faith
  • Stop

• I really am a feminist, though I never used to call myself that.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Feminist

• Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Wonder
  • Stevie

• I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Try

• My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • World
  • Music
  • Father

• If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Show
  • Would
  • Room

• I never trusted good-looking boys.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Trust
  • Never

• Most geniuses are weird.

  

  T-Pain
  • Weird
  • Most
  • Geniuses

• It's shown and proved that hard work pays off. Make goals, achieve them and replace them with new goals.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Work
  • Goals
  • Hard Work

• It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Good
  • Without
  • Vices

• I think you can have a ridiculously enormous and complex data set, but if you have the right tools and methodology then it's not a problem.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Problem
  • Tools
  • Data

• I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Thinking
  • Sweet
  • Faces

• It's hard to do," I said. Wes looked at me. "What is?" I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. "Get it right.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Right
  • Said
  • Hard

• If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Hope
  • Idea
  • Absurd

• It is impossible to get out of a problem by using the same kind of thinking that it took to get into it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Problem

• So acknowledge here to yourself, ‘I am unique, and while there may be someone who is better than me at this or that, it doesn’t matter because they’re not me. So no matter what, they’ll never do it like me because that’s impossible.’ So embrace the quirks, embrace your individuality, embrace where you are in life. No one else is like you, and that is special, and that is unique.

  

  Kathryn Budig
  • Unique
  • Matter
  • Impossible

• In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Impossible
  • Absurd
  • Attempt