Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.
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I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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As a boy, I was a member of a club run by the famous reptile showman Ross Allen, and the club sent its members pseudoscientific papers mimeographed on construction paper with a three-hole punch.
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I, as a cricketer, would like to see 100 counties playing top-flight cricket, just like tennis and football. If I am alive to see that, I will be very happy.
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I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
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My first day of high school, I wore brown boys' corduroys that my mom had sewn Sesame Street elastic into - they were my coolest pants - and a lime green Patagonia fleece that my mom found at Goodwill. I loved fleece.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
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Cancelled isn't a bad word because it happens everyday.
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Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
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I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.
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At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.
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We'll always need energy. We need to communicate, too, but we're not stuck with hand gestures and smoke signals. There are better ways to power our future than by digging fossil fuel from the ground and setting it on fire.
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I'd rather go to sleep than find a girl.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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Many custodial banks and brokers will only promise execution of these registration instructions if they are given instructions this evening or by tomorrow, close of business.
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Overexposing my innards to careless hearts and hands is a practice I am prepared to stop performing.
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Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
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My generation of Americans, the scions of daring dreamers, the children of the fearlessly faithful and the offspring of many of history's most audacious actors - we, together, drink deeply from wells of freedom, liberty and opportunity that we did not dig.
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It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.
