Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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I've always been into dressing nicely. My dad's really into fashion, also. We'll always go out and buy stuff. He has his own style and I have my own style, but it's a shared thing. Same thing with my grandfather; he was really into his style, so it's just sort of been passed down, I think.
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I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.
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It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.
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The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
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Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.
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I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.
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I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.
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'Bergkamp. He had the finest technique of all Dutch players.' - Guus Hiddink
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on the Gulf War I was in the unenviable position of being for the war, but against the troops.
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With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role.
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I just stay healthy all year round. I try to feel good in my skin. For me, I have trained in ballet my whole life so my body really feels best when I feel strong and tight and toned, and I think that comes from years and years of constant training as a ballerina. Leading up to the show, getting out there in your underwear, you just want to feel your best mainly in your head than more anything else. Obviously you want to feel good physically too, so it's more just in your head, pushing yourself, approaching this challenge and taking the opportunity to push yourself a little further.
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It is good to live and learn.
