Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.
Quotes to Explore
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Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
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People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
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I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
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And several galleries – two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.
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Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha.
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'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.
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I even scored Monaco's goal too. Please, put it down as an own goal for me!
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The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.
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We cannot simply look to austerity as a strategy and it is incredibly important that the Greek people see improvements in their daily lives so that they can carry with them the hope that their lives will get better.
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Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?
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The hardest thing I think I've ever had to do to tell you, the woman I love, that I'm having a baby by a woman that I barely know.
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I tend to equate sadness with intelligence.
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Bleep theory belongs in philosophy, not a science class. But I think it does have enough merit to be a topic of conversation somewhere other than the backwoods and closets.
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If you think a complimentary thought about someone, don't just think it. Dare to compliment people and pass on compliments to them from others.
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I still miss the days when a haircut was just a haircut. It was only your mates you had to face. Now there's a whole industry centred around people analysing your 'look'. I just cannot understand how anyone could get so worked up by... hair.
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Writing lyrics with your wife does lead to talking about yourselves a lot. But this is not an autobiographical account of my personal marriage. It's almost about the marriage of the band.
