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 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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The older I get, the more interesting the part has to be. Bobby Knight is extremely interesting.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I went to a Turkish hairdresser, and they burned the hair off my ears with a lit taper. They just put the burning candle near your ears and you hear the hair being burned away. And the smell - urggh!
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Soon shall thy arm, unconquer’d steam! afarDrag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;Or on wide-waving wings expanded bearThe flying chariot through the field of air.
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If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of them, something relating to the supplies, or else a tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government.
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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.
