Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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Trust is something I know has to be earned whether you're a husband, a father, or a congressman.
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Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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I love New York. Love it.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
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Selling online is one channel, but it's not the only channel.
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To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of person of which I was a typical specimen: the mental contortionist, able to rise to almost every challenge placed before him, except the challenge of real self-knowledge.
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We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.
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The demons are innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times, and create panic and terror. But I have learnt that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.
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I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.
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It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the adoption of the interim constitution and our first democratic elections in April 1994.
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Word of mouth is everything.
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If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
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With relationships, I always had a reason why some time in the future would be better for me than it was that day. When I was fat, I thought I'd feel pretty when I was thin, and when I was thin, I thought I'd be happier if I was more toned and muscular and had more money to look more coordinated. I wasn't comfortable in my own skin unless there was a man there to tell me just how radiant that skin looked. I was a victim of low self-esteem and had the Soon syndrome bad. I was running toward a brighter future, unaware of the mirages I'd created in the distance.
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So often, we don't realize that the very moments in which we live become our history, our story.
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By creating a context of pressure, I can exact more preciseness, more brilliance. It's just as if coal is subjected to enormous pressure, you can get a diamond.
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Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.
