Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
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Good design should be honest.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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I've lived with boys and girls, and I find that boys are generally cleaner than girls. Generally! This is a big generalization!
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.
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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
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Boxing is not for killing.
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When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.
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We will wash and clean the ANC, and it will be the ANC you know. The ANC that will work for the people.
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Although in my life the level of loss has never reached the extremes it does in 'The Winter People,' I certainly can identify with being both a daughter longing for her mother and being a mother who is almost scared by the intensity of her love for her daughter.
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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
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I always loved stage combat at drama school so I can't wait to get on set and kick some evil monsters into the next dimension!
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
