Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed – I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.
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As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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People love teen movies because everyone can relate.
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Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.
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And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.
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Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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ObamaCare is working. I talk to a lot of CEOs of hospitals. It is working.
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I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.
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America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
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We have to tokenize in order to normalize.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
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Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I've never been in love before - I don't really know? I think I have. I guess it's subjective in that way.
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Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
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Fear created the first gods in the world.
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It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.
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Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
