Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
Lady Starlight -
To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
Zac Brown Band -
I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.
Jack Ramsay -
I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.
Lake Bell -
Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
Nadia Comaneci -
It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
Ulysses S. Grant
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In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
Samuel E. Morison -
You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
Sam Shepard -
I wasn't, like, this top model; I was quietly doing my work, and when I became an actress, people started doing research, and everybody found out. People dug out photos, and suddenly people became interested - but no one was interested in my photos when I was a model.
Olga Kurylenko -
Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
I've always liked new writing.
Imelda Staunton -
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.
Edgar Mitchell
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I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.
Lata Mangeshkar -
I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.' I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.
Cara Buono -
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
R. D. Laing -
Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the conflict between existence and essence, objectification and self-affirmation, freedom and necessity, individual and species. It is the riddle of history solved and knows itself as the solution.
Karl Marx -
The human race has only two unlimited capacities: one for suffering and one for lying. I want to fight religion as the root of all human lying and the only excuse for human suffering.
Ayn Rand -
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
Benjamin Harrison
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In the Bernstein Manual there is a short chapter on undercover work. The first line says, in capital letters, AVOID UNDERCOVER WORK.
Eoin Colfer -
I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
Felicity Kendal -
I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.
Francesca Annis -
The first part of my career was indeed as a performer and recording artist, and I am still keenly involved with both. While rummaging around in the British Library, I found many delightful and interesting compositions by 18th-century men and women composers.
Barbara Harbach -
Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
Miguel de Cervantes