Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
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I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.
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I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.
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And it hurts as a player, that you put a lot of hard work in during the week, and at the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that's when they acknowledge about the hard work that you put in throughout the week. That's actually a disappointment.
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Are kids smarter than adults? All evidence points to that being true.
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I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
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The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.
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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
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I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always trying to stay connected that way and the irony is that it's actually disconnecting us from everything else because we're not just focused on what's in front of us; we focus on what's in our hand or off to the side.
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The waves of religion based on terrorism in the 1990s are based on the tormented response of a mutilated Muslim society whose progressive forces have been savagely emasculated. Why on earth is the Arab world so hostile to women? Why can it not see women as a force for development?
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My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?
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I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one point, I checked out all the books in the fairy tale section. I remember the librarian's quiet smile as I'd bring back one stack and exchange it for another.
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With Jay-Z, it's hard not to be amazing.
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I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony - and my daughter Grammy.
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I wake up in the morning, and I look in a mirror, and I go, 'Is this really all I got? Is this all the universe has given me?'
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Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams. We compared notes. We found strange affinities. The same June of the same year (1919) a stray canary had fluttered into her house and mine, in two widely separated countries. Oh, Lolita, had you love me thus!
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We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by it. As a matter of fact, in the popular black imagination, it is easier for us to construct ourselves as children of Africa, as the sons and daughters of kings and queens, and thereby ignore the Middle Passage and centuries of enforced servitude in the Americas. Although some of us might indeed be the descendants of African royalty, most of us are probably descendants of their subjects, the daughters and sons of African peasants or workers.
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
