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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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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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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We're going to hear a lot of spirited discussion about the President's plan in the next few days and weeks and that's fine as long as everyone comes ready to talk and not just snipe, complain and argue.
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I love life. There's so much to learn and see all the time, and nothing nicer for me than to wake up, and the sky is blue.
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The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.
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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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It is obvious, that theory alone, can never make a good artist; and it is equally obvious, that practice unaided by theory, can never correct errors, but must establish them.
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It is good to live and learn.
