Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
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We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
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There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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As you well know, you just can't believe everything you see and hear, can you?
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Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.
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What we love about this life are the things that resonate with the life we were made for. The things we love are not merely the best this life has to offer—they are previews of the greater life to come.
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All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
