Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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When I was a kid, we never had a videogame in my house. But my cousin did, and each time I went to her house I was able to play 'Tetris' and 'Mario.' Those were the only two games I played as a child.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.
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All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
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You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.
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The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent.But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.
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The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
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The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.
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Imagination comes of not having things.
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You have to persevere, you have to just not give up, and you have to know what you want. You have to be able to see your dream.
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I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.
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Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.
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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
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I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time.
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People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art.
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In life when we feel we have reached a limit, that is when the true battle begins. Just when you despair and think it is impossible to go any further, will you become apathetic, or will you say it's not over and stand up with an unyielding spirit? The battle is decided by this single determination.
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I love movies. And sometimes it will be a case where I don't notice music.
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A friend in need needs a friend, indeed.
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They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
