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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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
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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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When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
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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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In the subconscious fantasies that make conception look so alluring, it is often ourselves that we would like to see live forever, not someone with a personality of his own.
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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 think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system.
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The generosity of the Earth allows us to feed all mankind; we know enough about ecology to keep the Earth a healthy place; there is enough room on the Earth, and there are enough materials, so that everybody can have adequate shelter; we are quite competent enough to produce sufficient supplies of necessities so that no one need live in misery.
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Once you're heterosexual and comfortable with that, you don't need to take out an announcement every day.
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When learning becomes you, then it appears as you need it, when you are being you.
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They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
