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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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
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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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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 shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
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For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
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We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
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When I'm not in front of the camera, I'm just like any other normal person. I'm a student. I eat when I'm stressed.
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You don't get second chances in the real world.
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When I search myself carefully I do think it's from my mother. I even feel strange saying that. Most people, I believe, when they're asked profound questions about their own persona are not really able to enunciate it, because it's a combination of so many things. But certainly influences early on that I felt from my mother. I wouldn't say she was "political" per se; she was sensitive to other people.
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First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
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I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.
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That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in our own day this principle is universally neglected. The best laws, though sanctioned by every citizen of the state, will be of no avail unless the young are trained by habit and education in the spirit of the constitution.
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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.
