Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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I'm a good legislator. I'm a bad some other things.
Barney Frank
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I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.
Dan Pink
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Quite often you hear people say, 'What about separation of church and state?' There is no such thing.
Dan Severson
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You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing
James Brown
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On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.
Anita Loos
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Early on in my career, I was more closed off in every way. I thought I was protecting myself; instead, I was robbing myself of all I could learn and experience.
Alicia Keys
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The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.
Ben Affleck
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We women adore failures. They lean on us.
Oscar Wilde
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Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.
William Hazlitt
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Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.
William Ellery Channing
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Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.
William Ellery Channing
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My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.
Charles Dickens
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A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever.
Marilyn Monroe
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In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and Id like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme are visible in my work.
Scott Adkins
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Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.
Bill Gates
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You can't tell a writer they should just be more confident.
Alice Mattison
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In thermodynamics as well as in other branches of molecular physics , the laws of phenomena have to a certain extent been anticipated, and their investigation facilitated, by the aid of hypotheses as to occult molecular structures and motions with which such phenomena are assumed to be connected. The hypothesis which has answered that purpose in the case of thermodynamics, is called that of "molecular vortices," or otherwise, the "centrifugal theory of elasticity.
William John Macquorn Rankine
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I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.
Hilary Mantel
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When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
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Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
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Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.
Miguel de Cervantes